The new issue of Southwest Hydrology features the Endangered Species Act.
From the WWW site:
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is increasingly forcing water managers to maintain a quantity and quality of water suitable for certain species and their habitats. This raises a number of challenges, not the least of which is determining how much water a species or habitat actually needs. In many situations, conflicts between ESA and other laws means that the loss of some species or habitat is unavoidable, but ESA has provisions for that too, such as restoring habitat or creating it elsewhere. ESA’s reach has extended far beyond species, however, in being a catalyst for developing water management plans for a wide variety of stakeholders, as illustrated in these feature articles.
Featured articles:
- ESA and Water Projects in the West - An Overview
- Managing Multiple Species in the Klamath
- Raising Endangered Fish in New Mexico
- The Edwards Aquifer: ESA-Driven Management
- Weaving Disparate Threads: CWA and ESA
- The Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program
- How Much Water Do Stream-Dependent Species Need?
As always, download the entire issue or individual articles free of charge.
The next issue will feature Big Water Transfers. Oh, boy! I hope they mean REALLY big!
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." -- John Muir
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