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Endangered species mitigation banking: promoting recovery through habitat conservation planning under the Endangered Species Act

The Endangered Species Act has fostered considerable controversy surrounding its regulation of privately owned endangered species habitat. Private landowners believe that the law wrongly requires them to bear the burden of providing endangered species habitat on their property. At the same time, con...

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Published in:The Science of the total environment 1999-10, Vol.240 (1), p.11-19
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