The Endangered Species Act
How FLA advocates a common sense approach to ESA
Position Statement on At-Risk Species
FLA believes the conservation of species and ecosystems is important to society, and forest landowners take immense pride in being good stewards of their land and forest resources. However, 45 years of the highly regulatory, command-and-control approach of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) has demonstrated the sweeping, unintended powers of this law’s burdensome effect on landowners, workers, industry, and regional economies.
Forest landowners believe in a common-sense approach to protecting at-risk species. FLA supports the reform of burdensome environmental laws and regulations, which are often insensitive to the rights of private landowners and the impact on their businesses. We support the implementation of new, more effective methods of conserving species and ecosystems.
Navigating the Endangered Species Act
ESA Updates for Forest Landowners
Private Landowners’ Stewardship Yields Comeback of Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Pictured above: Regional Forester for the Southern Region of the USDA Forest Service Ken Arney, President, Crowell Forest Resources LLC, 4th generation landowner, Louisiana and FLA Gov’t Affairs Chair, Michael Crowell, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Aurelia...
Comments Submitted on Strict 4(d) Rule for Neuse River Waterdog
FLA and North Carolina Members Submit Comments on Strict 4(d) Rule for Neuse River Waterdog On July 30, the USFWS re-opened the comment period for their 4(d) rule for the threatened Neuse River waterdog – an aquatic salamander native to the Neuse River in North...
Species Work from the Midwest, to the Southeast, and onto the Pacific Northwest
Listing Decision for Pacific Fisher In November 2019, the US. Fish Service proposed to list the West Coast population of the pacific fisher as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. FLA and several of its members and partners submitted comments...
Progress Toward Regulatory Certainty
Recently, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service) announced decisions for two species that have been the subject of intense advocacy on the part of FLA for many years: the black pinesnake and the Louisiana pinesnake. Louisiana Pinesnake Final...
Northern Long-Eared Bat Status to be Revisited
The U.S District Court for the District of Columbia issued a significant decision in ongoing litigation challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (the Service) 2015 listing of the northern long-eared bat (“NLEB”) as “threatened” under the Endangered...
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