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Deregulating Endangered
Species Protection
Abstract: Species conservation has become an increasingly vexing challenge for US policymakers. As Congress debates, once again, amending the ESA to incorporate a number of reforms there are numerous actors seeking to protect or challenge various elements of the Act. The premise of this paper is that ESA reform can be understood more fully in the context of the larger trend of regulatory reform. Part I examines various criticisms of the ESA and contends the Act is also under attack because of its origins in the era of social regulation of the early-1970s. Part II explores recent attempts to reauthorize the ESA and focuses attention on efforts to recast the participatory elements of the Act and incorporate a greater emphasis on local economic considerations. The conclusion argues for more direct explanations of the politics of endangered species conservation.
Patrick Impero Wilson, Society and Natural Resources, (Vol. 14,
no. 2, 2001)
Wolves, Politics, and the Nez Perce: Wolf Reintroduction in Central Idaho and the Role of Native
Tribes
Abstract: The gray wolf recovery effort in the northern Rocky Mountains is perhaps the most successful effort to promote the recovery of an endangered species. Despite the success, wolf recovery is a highly controversial symbol of a larger debate over public lands policy in the West. This article examines the politics of gray wolf recovery and explains why Idaho refused to take part, thus allowing the Nez Perce Tribe to assume primary management of the recovery effort. Part Two explores the challenge and opportunity that wolf recovery presented for the tribe. The conclusion speculates on the policymaking implications of native tribes playing an expanded role in the management of natural resources.
Patrick Impero Wilson, Natural Resources Journal (Summer 1999)
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