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ENDANGERED SPECIES
    • Not Too Late to Save the Polar Bear: A Rapid Action Plan to Address the Arctic Meltdown. Siegel, K., Cummings, B., Moritz, A. & Nowicki, B., 2007.
    • Status of the Bald Eagle in the Lower 48 States and the District of Columbia: 1963-2007. Suckling, K. & Hodges, W., 2007.
    • The Bureaucratically Imperiled Mexican Wolf. Povilitis, A., Parsons, D.R., Robinson, M.J., & Becker, C.D., 2006.
    • A Review of Northern Goshawk Habitat Selection in the Home Range and Implications for Forest Management in the Western United States. Greenwald, D. N., Crocker-Bedford, C., Broberg, l., & Suckling, K., 2005.
    • Impacts of the 2003 Southern California Wildfires on Four Species Listed as Threatened or Endangered Under the Federal Endangered Species Act: Quino Checkerspot Butterfly, Mountain Yellow-legged Frog, Coastal California Gnatcatcher, Least Bell's Vireo. Bond, M. & Bradley, C., 2003.
    • A Conservation Alternative for the Management of the Four Southern California National Forests (Los Padres, Angeles, San Bernardino, Cleveland).
    • Analysis of Compliance by U.S. Forest Service Southwestern Region with Incidental Take Statements Issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Three Biological Opinions of 1999.

ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
    • Politicizing Extinction: The Bush Administration's Dangerous Approach to Endangered Wildlife. Greenwald, N., 2007
    • Measuring the Success of the Endangered Species Act, Recovery Trends in the Northeastern United States. Suckling, K.F., 2006.
    • Factors Affecting the Rate and Taxonomy of Species Listings under the US Endangered Species Act. In Gobel, D, Scott, M.J. & Davis, F.W. (eds.) The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Commitment. Island Press. Greenwald D.N., Suckling, K.F. & Taylor, M.F.J., 2006.
    • Critical habitat and recovery. In: Gobel, D., Scott, M.J. & Davis, F.W. (eds.) The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Commitment. Island Press. Suckling, K.F. & Taylor, M.F.J., 2006.
    • The listing record. In: Gobel, D., Scott, M.J., & Davis, F.W. (eds.) The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Commitment. Island Press. Greenwald, D.N., K.F. Suckling and M.F.J. Taylor, 2006. 
    • Progress or Extinction? A Systematic Review of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Endangered Species Act Listing Program. 1974-2004. Greenwald, D. N. & Suckling, K. F., 2005
    • The Effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act: A Quantitative Analysis. Taylor, M.F.J., Suckling, K.F. & Rachlinski, J.J., 2005. BioScience 55(4):360-367.
    • Extinction and the Endangered Species Act. Suckling, K., Nowicki, B. & Slack, R., 2004.
    • A Review of the Bush Critical Habitat Record. 2003.
    • Bush Administration Attacks Endangered Species Act.
    • Safeguarding Citizen Rights Under the Endangered Species Act.

BIODIVERSITY
    • Assessing Protection for Imperiled Species of Nevada, U.S.A.: Are Species Slipping Through the Cracks of Existing
Protections?
Greenwald, N. & Bradley, C., 2008.
    • Medinal Plants at RiskNature's Pharmacy, Our Treasure Chest: Why We Must Preserve Our Natural Heritage. Roberson, E., 2008.
    • Species of Concern of the Tillamook Rainforest and North Coast, Oregon. Greenwald, N. & Garty, A., 2007.
    • The Bering Sea: A Biodiversity Assessment of Vertebrate Species. Greenwald, N., Callimanis, S., Garty, A. & Peters, E., 2006.
    • Saving All the Parts: Protecting Species of Northwest Old-growth Forests. Greenwald, N. & Greason, S., 2004.
    • Imperiled Western Trout and the Importance of Roadless Areas.
    • A Conservation Alternative for the Management of the Four Southern California National Forests (Los Padres, Angeles, San Bernardino, Cleveland).
    • Principles of Wildlife Corridor Design. M. Bond, 2003

WILDERNESS
    • Wild at Heart: Saving the Last of America's Backcountry.
    • Imperiled Western Trout and the Importance of Roadless Areas.
    • Protection and Conservation of Roadless Areas in the Southwest.
    • A Conservation Alternative for the Management of the Four Southern California National Forests (Los Padres, Angeles, San Bernardino, Cleveland).

GLOBAL WARMING
    • Fuel to Burn: The Climate and Public Health Implications of Off-road Vehicle Pollution in California. Kassar, C. & Spitler, P., 2008
    • Not Too Late to Save the Polar Bear: A Rapid Action Plan to Address the Arctic Meltdown. Siegel, K., Cummings, B., Moritz, A. & Nowicki, B., 2007
    • The California Environmental Quality Act: On the Front Lines of California’s Fight Against Global Warming. Siegel, K., Vespa, M. & Nowicki, B., 2007

ENERGY
    • Report: Corporate Profile of Salt River Project.
    • Ecological and Community Problems with Biomass-To-Energy.

POLLUTION
    • Poisoning Our Imperiled Wildlife: San Francisco Bay Area Endangered Species at Risk from Pesticides. Miller, J., Miller, J., Beeland, T.D. & Bradley, C., 2006
    • Silent Spring Revisited: Pesticide Use and Endangered Species. Litmans, B. & Miller, J, 2004

FIRE AND FOREST RESTORATION
    • Impacts of the 2003 Southern California Wildfires on Four Species Listed as Threatened or Endangered Under the Federal Endangered Species Act: Quino Checkerspot Butterfly, Mountain Yellow-legged Frog, Coastal California Gnatcatcher, Least Bell's Vireo. Bond, M. & Bradley, C., 2003.
    • Ecological Restoration of Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems: A Broad Perspective. Allen, C.D., Savage, M., Falk, D.A., Suckling, K.F., Swetnam, T.W., Schulke, T., Stacey, P.B., Morgan, P., Hoffman, M. & Klingel, J.T., 2002. Ecological Applications 12(5):1418-1433.
    • Prelude to Catastrophe: Recent and Historic Land Management within the Rodeo-Chedeski Fire Area.
    • Effectively Treating the Wildland-Urban Interface to Protect Houses and Communities from the Threat of Forest Fire.
    • Protection and Conservation of Old-growth Forests in the Southwest.
    • An Ecologically Integrated Approach to Managing Dwarf Mistletoe (Arceuthobium) in Southwest Forests. 
    • Fire & Forest Ecosystem Health in the American Southwest.
    • A Conservation Alternative for the Management of the Four Southern California National Forests (Los Padres, Angeles, San Bernardino, Cleveland).

LIVESTOCK GRAZING
    • Assessing the Full Cost of the Federal Grazing Program.
    • Ecological Restoration of Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems: A Broad Perspective. Allen, C.D., Savage, M., Falk, D.A., Suckling, K.F., Swetnam, T.W., Schulke, T., Stacey, P.B., Morgan, P., Hoffman, M. & Klingel, J.T., 2002. Ecological Applications 12(5):1418-1433.
    • Cattle Grazing and the Loss of Biodiversity in the East Bay
    • Livestock Grazing and Forest Fires: A Literature Review.

PHILOSOPHY
    • Frogs. In Bernheimer, K. (ed.) Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales ( Wayne State University Press). Suckling, K.F., 2007.
    • Biodiversity, Linguistic Diversity and Identity — Toward an Ecology of Language in an Age of Extinction. Suckling, K., 2000. Langscape 17:14-20.
    • A House on Fire: Connecting the Biological and Linguistic Diversity Crises. 2002. Animal Law 6:193-202.

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