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$$$$$$$ Spent on ESA

Federal and State Endangered and Threatened Species expenditures, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
1996 Expenditure Report This report presents the reported expenditures for Fiscal Year 1996 (October 1995 - September 1996). http://www.fws.gov/endangered/expenditures/Fy_1996.pdf
 1997 Expenditure Report This report presents the reported expenditures for Fiscal Year 1997 (October 1996 - September 1997). http://www.fws.gov/endangered/expenditures/Fy_1997.pdf
 1998-2000 Expenditure Reports These three reports present the reported expenditures for Fiscal Years 1998 (October 1997 - September 1998), 1999 (October 1998 - September 1999), and 2000 (October 1999 - September 2000). http://www.fws.gov/endangered/expenditures/19982000.html
 2001 Expenditure Report This report presents the reported expenditures for Fiscal Year 2001 (October 2000 - September 2001). Revised January 2005. http://www.fws.gov/endangered/expenditures/reports/2001Expenditure%20Report_Jan05.pdf
 2002 Expenditure Report This report presents the reported expenditures for Fiscal Year 2002 (October 2001 - September 2002). Revised January 2005. http://www.fws.gov/endangered/expenditures/reports/2002Expenditure%20Report_Jan05.pdf
 2003 Expenditure Report This report presents the reported expenditures for Fiscal Year 2003 (October 2002 - September 2003). January 2005. http://www.fws.gov/endangered/expenditures/reports/2003Expenditure%20Report_Jan05.pdf
 2004 Expenditure Report This report presents the reported expenditures for Fiscal Year 2004 (October 2003 - September 2004). January 2006 (15.6MB PDF) http://www.fws.gov/endangered/expenditures/reports/FWS%20Endangered%20Species%202004%20Expenditures%20Report.pdf
The reports are available to the public, and the information is used by the media, environmental organizations, and other interested parties.
ESA financial reports and definitiions, FWS 1/20/06

 

Agreements propose $980.5 million for projects; support for feds' salmon strategy, CBB, posted 4/13/08

Interior grants disbursed to conservation projects, Indian Country 4/8/08. Karuk Tribe of California: $100,000 for the Bluff Creek Habitat Protection Project, Yurok Tribe: $200,000 for the Yurok Tribe Condor Release Initiative

State Wildlife Agencies To Receive over $700 Million For Wildlife And Sport Fish Restoration, Fish & Wildlife, posted 2/25/08

Money ($10 million) could have been spent better, H&N, posted 11/29/07. "...now we are paying for a $10 million levee demolition project that will give the sucker fish larval a better chance because it will provide lower water habitat?..."

Salmon plan implementation could increase federal spending $1 billion over 10 years, CB Bulletin, posted to KBC 11/4/07. For more ESA $ go HERE.

Grant to restore Basin watershed, H&N, posted 8/31/07. "Ducks Unlimited received a $789,563 federal grant to help restore the Upper Klamath Basin watershed. "Groups involved in the project include The Nature Conservancy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Klamath Watershed Council, KBEF/Klamath Basin Ecosystem Foundation, and Klamath Basin Rangeland Trust." For KBEF board of directors go HERE. KBEF and Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center are both members of Orion Network.  

Bill To Extend U.S. Assistance for Dwindling Asian Elephant Population Approved By U.S. House, House Resources Committee 7/23/07. "H. R. 465 will extend the ability of the Secretary of the Interior to make conservation grants at the existing level of up to $5 million per year until September 30, 2012. Since its enactment into law, Congress has appropriated $8.3 million in federal funds..." More on Endangered Species expenditures HERE.

Pacific Northwest Wildlife Agencies Will Share $2.5 Million in Grants To Conserve At-Risk Species Grants will fund projects on private lands, FWS posted 7/20/07

PRESS RELEASE: Service Releases Draft Economic Analysis for Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat for the Marbled Murrelet, FWS 6/26/07. "potential costs related to the conservation of areas proposed for marbled murrelet critical habitat at $69.4 million to $1.4 billion over the next 20 years...The Service is proposing to designate 221,692 acres of critical habitat...(in) California, Oregon and Washington." HERE for more ESA expenses.

Yurok tribe gets funding for project, Triplicate 5/23/07

Responsibility by Jim Beers, posted to KBC 5/22/07. Beers is a  retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist, Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. "What about the US Fish and Wildlife Service theft of $60 Million from funds destined for state hunting and fishing programs to fund things like introducing wolves into Yellowstone and opening an endangered species office (to cater to radicals) in California - each of which Congress had refused to fund?"

FWS News Release: Fish and Wildlife Service Director Announces $8.9 Million In Grants to Tribes to Help Conserve Fish and Wildlife. Nearly $1.6 million will go to Tribes in the Pacific Northwest, posted 5/22/07