Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin water commons / David M. Freeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeman, David M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Endangered Species Act of 1973.

United States.

Endangered species--Law and legislation--South Platte River Watershed (Colo. and Neb.).

Endangered species.

Fishery law and legislation--South Platte River Watershed (Colo. and Neb.).

Fishery law and legislation.

Wildlife conservation--Law and legislation--South Platte River Watershed (Colo. and Neb.).

Wildlife conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (511 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : University Press of Colorado, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Water users of the Platte River Basin have long struggled to share this scarce commodity in the arid high plains, ultimately organizing collectively owned and managed water systems, allocating water along extensive stream systems, and integrating newer groundwater with existing surface-water uses. In 1973, the Endangered Species Act brought a new challenge: incorporating the habitat needs of four species-the whooping crane, piping plover, least tern, and pallid sturgeon-into its water-management agenda. Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons tells of the neg

Contents:

Problem and significance

Change on the river

Into a federal nexus

Colorado in a federal nexus : defending the water tower

Nebraska in a federal nexus : threat to the big house

Wyoming in a federal nexus : defending the mountaintop

Options : individual consultation, litigation, or constructing a cooperative program

Organization of negotiations

Colorado's interests

Nebraska's interests

Wyoming's interests

States, federal agencies, and the water plan

Defining success : science as a referee in a game where no one knows the score

Science as justification for sacrifice : the junk science controversy

Science as faith : negotiating an adaptive management deal for terrestrial habitat

Science as faith : putting adaptive management to its first test with the sedimentation-vegetation problem

Scent of victory and impasse

Negotiating context, 2000-2006

Regime of the river : Colorado and Nebraska nightmares

Regime of the river : sharing peak flows : Colorado and the USFWS struggle on the South Platte

Regime of the river : Wyoming and Nebraska address new depletions

Regime of the river : Nebraska confronts its history

Regime of the river : building a federal depletions plan : states confront the U.S. Forest Service

Regime of the river : inserting pulse flows

Locked into an awful dance : bypass flows and hydro-cycling

The pallid sturgeon habitat gamble

Wielding the regulatory hammer

Adaptive management : lashing together conflicting visions with a Chinese wall

Search for approval

Policy implications

Theory implications.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781457110757

145711075X

9781607320555

160732055X

OCLC:

775301668