Asheville Ecological Services Field Office
Conserving the Nature of America

Information on Federal Natural Resource Laws

 

 

 

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The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service operates under the direction of a number of federal wildlife and natural resources laws, including federal code, regulations, treaties, and executive orders. These sites may help you understand those laws and how they apply to the Service's work.

Digest of federal resource laws - Summaries of federal code, treaties, executive orders, and other legal texts that guide the work of the Fish & Wildlife Service

Federal Register - The official daily publication of new rules, proposed rules, and notices of federal agencies

Endangered Species Act fact sheets - Summaries of how various aspects of the Endangered Species Act work, including listing a species to the federal list of threatened and endangered species, private landowners and endangered species, federal project review, and critical habitat designation

Regulatory information on federally threatened or endangered species - Database of federal rules pertaining to federally threatened or endangered species, searchable by species name

Congressional testimony given by Fish & Wildlife Service officials

 

 

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Endangered Species Act Contacts:

Mark Cantrell
office - 828/258-3939, ext. 227
cell - 828/215-1739
fax - 828/258-5330
160 Zillicoa St.
Asheville, NC 28801
mark_a_cantrell@fws.gov
Habitat conservation planning, managing private lands with endangered and threatend species

Robert Currie
office - 828/258-3939, ext. 224
fax - 828/258-5330
160 Zillicoa St.
Asheville, NC 28801
robert_currie@fws.gov
Recovery of threatend and endangered species

John Fridell
office - 828/258-3939, ext. 22
fax - 828/258-5330
160 Zillicoa St.
Asheville, NC 28801
john_fridell@fws.gov
Listing species as threatened or endangered; candidate species conservation

Allen Ratzlaff
office - 828/258-3939, ext 229
fax - 828/258-5330
160 Zillicoa St.
Asheville, NC 28801
allen_ratzlaff@fws.gov
Consultations with federal agencies

Carolyn Wells
office - 828/258-3939, ext. 231
fax - 828/258-5330
160 Zillicoa St.
Asheville, NC 28801
caroyln_wells@fws.gov
Coordination with state threatened and endangered species conservation programs

 

 

Last Updated: May 15, 2008