Saving Species on Private Lands: Unlocking Incentives to Conserve Wildlife and Their Habitats: Lowell E. Baier: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Saving Species on Private Lands

Unlocking Incentives to Conserve Wildlife and Their Habitats

Saving Species on Private Lands

Unlocking Incentives to Conserve Wildlife and Their Habitats

Description

Winner, Independent Press Award - Conservation/Green, 2021
The only hope for successful conservation of America’s threatened, endangered, and at-risk wildlife is through voluntary, cooperative partnerships that focus on private land, where over 75% of at-risk species can be found. Private landowners form the bedrock of these partnerships, and they have a long history of rising to meet the challenge of conservation. But they can’t do it alone.

This book is a guide for private landowners who want to conserve wildlife. Whether engaged in farming, ranching, forestry, mining, energy development, or another business, private working lands all have value as wildlife habitat, with the proper management and financial support. This book provides landowners and their partners with a roadmap to achieve conservation compatible with their financial and personal goals.

This book introduces the art and language of land management planning as well as regulatory compliance with laws such as the Endangered Species Act of 1973. It categorizes and explains the tools used by wildlife professionals to implement conservation on private lands. Moreover it documents the multitude of federal, state, local, and private opportunities for landowners to find financial and technical assistance in managing wildlife, from working with a local NGO to accessing the $6 billion per year available through the federal Farm Bill.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Guide to Acronyms and Terms

Foreword

Introduction and Chapter Summaries

Part I: Introduction to Proactive Wildlife Conservation on Private Land

Chapter 1: Private Land and the Endangered Species Act

Chapter 2: Case Studies

Chapter 3: Getting Started with Conservation

Part II: Conservation Tools and Your Business

Chapter 4: Common Mechanisms for Enrolling Land in Conservation Programs

Chapter 5: Working with Regulated Entities and Investors

Part III: Incentives for Private Land Conservation: The Farm Bill

Chapter 6: Introduction to the Farm Bill

Chapter 7: Farm Bill Incentives and Rental Contracts

Chapter 8: Farm Bill Easements

Chapter 9: Partnership Programs Under the Farm Bill

Part IV: Non-Farm Bill Incentives for Private Land Conservation

Chapter 10: Other Federal Resources for Conservation

Chapter 11: Non-Federal Resources for Conservation

Part V: Achieving Regulatory Certainty Under the Endangered Species Act for Management of Species that are Listed or May Become Listed

Chapter 12: Understanding a Landowners’ Liability Under the Endangered Species Act

Chapter 13: Tools for Private Landowners to Navigate the Endangered Species Act

Conclusion

Appendix A: Contacts for Landowners

Appendix B: Annual Impacts of Farm Bill Programs

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Product details

Published	Mar 10 2020
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	376
ISBN	9781538139387
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations	72 b/w photos; 6 tables
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

This straightforward handbook will rally the ecological power of private landowners. By clarifying multiple confusing laws, amendments, and regulations, it spreads a map for landowners and advocates to travel together.

Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of Interior (2006-2009); Governor of Idaho (1999-2006); U.S. Senator (1993-1999)
Saving Species on Private Lands is a timely and valuable resource for landowners willing to engage in the greatest conservation effort of all time. Lowell Baier demystifies voluntary conservation and helps landowners use proven tools to make smart decisions leading to real conservation. His vision of the natural harmony that can exist between people and wildlife on working lands will inspire and empower the rising generation of conservation leaders.

Dave Tenny, President & CEO, National Alliance of Forest Owners
Private land and landowners are critical to healthy wildlife populations. Partnerships between landowners and other wildlife conservationists are key to conserving declining wildlife species, and necessary to ensure working landscapes remain productive for human communities as well. This book explains programs and approaches to partnership-driven voluntary conservation on private lands and is a valuable resource for landowners and others who want to learn more about wildlife conservation opportunities on private land.

Steve Jester, Executive Director, Partners for Conservation
Private landowners play a critical role for species and habitat conservation. Saving Species on Private Lands documents decades of work with the private sector and illustrates how wildlife conservation can integrate with operations – from forestry and energy development to farming and ranching – on private lands.

Dr. Edward B. Arnett Ph.D., CEO, The Wildlife Society. Certified Wildlife Biologist
Saving Species on Private Lands is a very important book for conservation in America for the twenty-first century. For over 45 years, since its passage by Congress in 1973, the Endangered Species Act has been primarily the province of federal and state wildlife agencies for implementation of conservation strategies. As a result not much progress has been made on species recovery. This is not surprising since 80% of endangered species habitat nationwide is on private lands ,and public agencies have largely ignored private land owners for decades. Progress on species recovery will only be made by encouraging the stewardship by private land owners on a scalable basis. This core constituency of 13 million Americans is the key to species recovery in America. Saving Species on Private Lands is a major contribution to breaking through this barrier to engage and encourage private land owners to participate in species recovery. I encourage any landowner hosting endangered species or having species in their vicinity of their properties to read this important book. It will advance the conservation cause in America more than any and all environmental advocacies.

Amos S. Eno, President and Founder, Land Conservation Assistance Network, Executive Director, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (1991-1999)
Saving Species on Private Lands takes on the complex issues of how landowners can conserve wildlife, access public and private support for doing so, and avoid regulation under the Endangered Species Act. This practical, well organized book is a valuable resource for landowners, partner organizations, government officials, students, and policymakers alike.

Tom Vilsack, United States Secretary of Agriculture (2009-2017)