Environmental Stewardship Wildlife Crossing Ahead: Costs and Benefits of Avoided Collisions Every year in the United States wildlife vehicle collisions (WVCs) kill over 200 people and injure 26,000, costing more than $8 billion.
Environmental Stewardship Estimating the Impact of Critical-Habitat Designation on the Values of Developed and Undeveloped Parcels When private land is designated as critical habitat for an endangered species, does that change the value of the land?
Environmental Stewardship Crowdsourcing Conservation: How to use community science to advance public and private conservation This policy paper examines conservation projects using crowdsourcing to determine if it is a useful tool for advancing conservation efforts.
Environmental Stewardship The Taxonomic Basis of Subspecies Listed as Threatened and Endangered under the Endangered Species Act In this paper, authors Robert M. Zink and Luke B. Klicka examine—according to modern standards—the validity of subspecies currently listed.
Environmental Stewardship Making Private Lands Count for Conservation: Policy Improvements toward 30×30 How can private land be counted in the 30 x 30 efforts proposed by the Biden Administration? Megan Jenkins and Harrison Naftel explain.
Environmental Stewardship Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants The Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service proposed a rule to rescind their 2020 habitat definition.
Environmental Stewardship High West Meets American Prairie This paper describes how a non-profit and a for-profit business helped save one of the last grassland ecosystems in the world.
Environmental Stewardship Cameras for Conservation: Direct Compensation as Motivation for Living with Wildlife In this paper, Laura Huggins, Olivia Hansen, and Harrison Naftel explore how to help turn wildlife into an asset rather than a liability.
Environmental Stewardship The Costs and Benefits of Critical Habitat Designation: Legal Requirements of the Endangered Species Act Author Jeffrey McCoy first provides an overview of the ESA's congressional history by examining amendments made in 1978 and 1982.
Environmental Stewardship Critical Habitat’s Unique “Private Land Problem” This paper highlights lessons from the dusky gopher frog case to enhance the effective use of critical habitat for species recovery.
Environmental Stewardship Endangered and Threatened Species: Regulations for Designating Critical Habitat Our research suggests that establishing a clear process for how decisions about exclusion will be made will help improve transparency.
Environmental Stewardship When Does Critical Habitat Designation Benefit Species Recovery? This policy paper examines both the benefits and drawbacks of designating critical habitat. Learn more here.
Environmental Stewardship Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants This public interest comment is on the proposed a rule to define “habitat” as used in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973.
Environmental Stewardship Addressing the Maintenance Backlog on Federal Public Lands Jenkins, Dougher, and Garlick begin by examining how the maintenance backlog was created and why it has persisted over time.
Regulation TURF Wars Jason Walsh and Chris Brozyna examine the effect of separating fisheries into Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TURFs).
Environmental Stewardship Cooperative Conservation: Determinants of Landowner Engagement in Conserving Endangered Species This policy paper analyzes surveys of private landowners to better understand factors that deter them from engaging in conservation.
Environmental Stewardship Revision of the Regulations for Prohibitions to Threatened Wildlife and Plants Drawing on previous research, the authors evaluate likely outcomes of the proposed rule change. Learn more about the research here.
Environmental Stewardship Revision of the Regulations for Listing Species and Designating Critical Habitat Drawing on previous research, the authors evaluate likely outcomes of the proposed rule change from the Fish and Wildlife Service.