Tag Archives: Geographic Information System (GIS)
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Petitioned, Candidate, and Proposed Species Distribution: Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act Across the Coterminous United States
The federal Endangered Species Act requires electric power facilities to consider the impacts of their operations on threatened or endangered species. This study characterizes the distribution of 532 petitioned species, 101 candidate species, and 42 proposed species under the law across the contiguous United States, identifying the Southeast as the region with the greatest density […]
