Listed : : Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act / / Joe Roman.
The first listed species to make headlines after the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973 was the snail darter, a three-inch fish that stood in the way of a massive dam on the Little Tennessee River. When the Supreme Court sided with the darter, Congress changed the rules. The dam was built, th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue: Boiling Spring
- 1 In the Name of the Darter
- 2 The Class of '67
- 3 Notes from the Vortex
- 4 The Endangered Species Act
- 5 A Handy Handle
- 6 Natural Capital
- 7 Magical Thinking
- 8 Grand Experiments
- 9 The Panther's New Genes
- 10 Safe Harbor
- 11 Crying Wolves
- 12 Skating over Thin Ice
- 13 Raising Whales