RESEARCH PAPERS

ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
    • A Future for All: A Blueprint for Strengthening the Endangered Species Act. 2011.
    • Effects on Species’ Conservation of Reinterpreting the Phrase “Significant Portion of its Range” in the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Greenwald, N., 2009. Conservation Biology 23(6): 1375-1377.
    • State Endangered Species Acts. In Baur, D.C. & Irvin, W.R. (eds.), Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy, and Perspectives, second edition. American Bar Association. George, S. & Snape, W., 2010.
    • 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
   • Joining the Convention on Biological Diversity: A Legal and Scientific Overview of Why the United States Must Wake Up. Snape, B., 2010. Sustainable Development Law & Policy 10(3): 6-18.
   • Highways to Hell: A Critical Examination of the Environmental Impacts of the Security and Prosperity Partnership. Lopez, J., 2009. [3 MB version]
   • Rana Aurora (Northern Red-legged Frog) Egg Mass Disturbance. Curry, T. R., and Hayes, M. P., 2009. Herpetological Review 40(2): 208-209.
   • Greenwashing Risks to Baby-boomers Abroad: An Assessment of Available Strategies to Address “Green” Marketing Misrepresentation to U.S. Retiree Real Estate Investors Overseas. 2009.
   • Life History Diversity and Protection of the Southwestern Washington/Columbia River Distinct Population Segment of the Coastal Cutthroat Trout. Greenwald, N. & Mashuda, S., 2008.
    • Predation on the Coastal Tailed Frog (Ascaphus truei) by a Shrew (Sorex spp.) in Washington State. Lund, E., Hayes, M., Curry, T., Marsten, J. & Young, 2008. Northwestern Naturalist 89(3): 200-202.
    • Assessing Protection for Imperiled Species of Nevada, U.S.A.: Are Species Slipping Through the Cracks of Existing Protections? Greenwald, N. & Bradley, C., 2008.
    • Medicinal Plants at Risk — Nature'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. Bond, M., 2003.

WILDERNESS
    • Groups Join Together to Confront Water-rights Issue. Mrowka, R. Desert Report (June 2011): 2, 13.
    • Saving Our National Legacy: The Future of America's Last Heritage Forests. Fink, M., Kassar, C., Matteson, M., and McKinnon, T., July 2009.
    • America's Newest Fossil Beds National Monument: Tule Springs/Upper Las Vegas Wash. Mrowka, R. and Davis, L., 2009.
    • 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
   • Not Just a Number: Achieving a CO2 Concentration of 350 ppm or Less to Avoid Catastrophic Climate Impacts. Center for Biological Diversity and 350.org, 2010.
   • Extinction: It's Not Just for Polar Bears. A Center for Biological Diversity and Care for the Wild International report. Wolf, S., 2010.
   • Yes, He Can: President Obama’s Power to Make an International Climate Commitment Without Waiting for Congress. Bundy, K., Cummings, B., Pardee, V. & Siegel, K., 2009.
   • 350 Reasons We Need to Get to 350: Species Threatened by Global Warming; An Interactive Installation by the Center for Biological Diversity. 2009.
   • No Reason to Wait: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through the Clean Air Act. Siegel, K., Snape, W., and Vespa, M., June 2009.
   • Why 350? Climate Policy Must Aim to Stabilize Greenhouse Gases at the Level Necessary to Minimize the Risk of Catastrophic Outcomes. Vespa, M., 2009. Ecology Law Currents 36(1): 185-194.
• 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
   • Fueling Extinction: How Dirty Energy Drives Wildlife to the Brink. Endangered Species Coalition (incl. the Center for Biological Diversity), 2012.
   • A Deadly Toll: The Gulf Oil Spill and the Unfolding Wildlife Disaster. 2011.
   • What We Should Learn From the BP Spill. Lopez, J., 2011. Environmental Law News 20 (1): 35.
   • BP’s Well Evaded Environmental Review: Categorical Exclusion Policy Remains Unchanged. Lopez, J., 2010. Ecology Law Currents 37 (93): 93-103.
   • Report: Corporate Profile of Salt River Project.
   • Ecological and Community Problems with Biomass-To-Energy.

POLLUTION
    • Dispersants: The Lesser of Two Evils or a Cure Worse Than the Disease? Kilduff, C. and Lopez, J., 2012. Ocean and Coastal Law Journal 16 (2): 375-394.
    • Endocrine-disrupting Chemical Pollution: Why the EPA Should Regulate These Chemicals Under the Clean Water Act. Lopez, J., 2010. Sustainable Development Law & Policy 10(3): 19-23.
    • 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
    • Influence of Pre-Fire Tree Mortality on Fire Severity in Conifer Forests of the San Bernardino Mountains, California, 2009. Bond, M., Lee, D. E., Bradley, C. & Hanson, T. Open Forest Science Journal 2:41-47.
    • 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.