Getting Ahead of the Extinction Curve

Abstract

I propose four steps to markedly reduce the rate of species loss in the United States: (1) Enact new legislation or an executive order requiring Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to maintain viable populations of all native vertebrates on BLM lands and national wildlife refuges; (2) preserve representative examples of all of the natural communities occurring on each national forest, BLM district, or national wildlife refuge; (3) develop a national initiative to protect freshwater biodiversity; and (4) reauthorize and strengthen the Endangered Species Act.