effective” on creating environmental policies. (Primo, 2014, p.8) Under the act if a private land was devastated as a critical habitat for threatened or endangered species and takes a 50% hit on market value than the property owner would be able to receive 150% of the fair market value of the property. (Primo, 2014, p.11) Previous reforms had one thing in common, to improve how the ESA handles endangered species on private land. Private landowners are the key to the ESA to achieving its full potential. Over 75% of endangered and threatened species can be found on private land. In the state of Maine around 90% of private land holds and endangered species. (Threatened and Endangered Species and the Private Landowner) When an endangered or threatened species is found on private land the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service steps in to manage the land on behave of the endangered or threatened species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife will place restrictions on the use of the property that could reduce the overall value of the land. (Stroup) Private …show more content…
Current implementation imposes costly requirements on businesses, restricts property rights for landowners, and does not successfully recover the targeted species. (Endangered Species Act Reform)
Certain presidential administrations are friendly than others in regards to endangered species. The Clinton administration listed 522 species on the endangered species list; George Bush Sr. administration listed 231 species, while George W. Bush administration listed only 62 species in eight years. (Listing Species Under the Endangered Species Act) Jamie Clark, a former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife, had this to say about the listing of endangered species “the services have faced tremendous political pressure to not list many candidate species”. (Clark, 2013,