National Wildlife Refuge System Management and Policy Act
National Wildlife Refuge System Management and Policy Act

Author: Environment and Public Works Committee

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-27

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9781333756383

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Excerpt from National Wildlife Refuge System Management and Policy Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Clean Water, Fisheries, and Wildlife of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session The Department of Defense is the predominant Federal entity with secondary jurisdiction. The Department was invited to testify, but their newly appointed lead environmental Official, the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security, wrote the subcommittee today that she did not have adequate time to pre pare for this hearing. She expressed concern about the provision of the bill that would affect Refuges with joint jurisdiction, and re quested that the hearing record remain open, pending submission of written testimony by June 30. By its very title, the gao calls on Congress to take bold action. That is what is needed and that is what this legislation provides. The bill before the subcommittee today is a comprehensive, organic act for the Refuge System, designed to accomplish the following. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The National Wildlife Refuges
The National Wildlife Refuges

Author: Robert L. Fischman

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2003-09-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781559639903

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The National Wildlife Refuges provides a comprehensive examination of the laws and policies governing management of the national wildlife refuges, offering for the first time a practical description and analysis of the management regime outlined in the 1997 National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act. The 1997 act is the first new statute governing a system of federal public lands enacted since the 1970s. The evolution of law governing the refuge system parallels broader trends in public land management and environmental protection, making the refuge system a valuable case study for those interested in environmental management, policy, and law. The book: describes the National Wildlife Refuge System and its legal history offers a detailed breakdown of the 1997 act, including its purpose, designated uses, comprehensive planning provisions, substantive management criteria, and public participation aspects considers individual refuges and specific issues that apply to only certain refuges discusses oil and gas development in refuges offers observations about how well the refuge system law resolves historic tensions and achieves modern conservation goals A separate chapter examines the special rules governing refuges in Alaska and considers the contentious debate over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Appendixes offer a reference of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology of the refuge system's development, key statutory provisions (including the full text of the 1997 act), and basic information about each national wildlife refuge. With an approach to conservation that is increasingly prevalent around the world, the National Wildlife Refuge System is an important model for sustainable resource management, and the book's analyses of the refuge system's ecological management criteria, conflicts between primary and subsidiary uses, and tension between site-specific standards and uniform national goals all offer important lessons for environmental governance generally.