Society for Range Management
RESOLUTION:

The Reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act

WHEREAS, the Society for Range Management supports the conservation of species and the maintenance and/or restoration of their habitats through the application of sound ecological and economic principles supported by rigorous research; and

WHEREAS, the Society advocates that legislation and laws governing the conservation of species should be implemented and managed in a cooperative manner cognizant of social and economic impacts; and

WHEREAS, the Society defines an ecosystem as

“Organisms together with their abiotic environment, forming an interacting system, inhabiting an identifiable space.”

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Society supports reauthorization of Public Law (93-295 as amended; 16 U.S.C. 1531-1543) entitled, “ The Endangered Species Act of 1973” with the following amendments:

  1. Redirect the focus of the Act from the individual species to the management of ecosystem function and sustainability.
  2. Require external peer/technical review of the information used in the listing process and recovery plans;
  3. Identify key information needs and provide for research, inventories, monitoring, and specific timelines to fill information voids;
  4. Designation of critical habitat and development of recovery plans shall comply with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 as amended
  5. Provide a cooperative approach to the management of private lands that may include:
    1. development of voluntary, cooperative management plans/agreements;
    2. purchase of easements;
    3. land exchange or just compensation for landowners who cede control of their property to society for species conservation.
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