By the Numbers

• Main Authors: Scott, J. Michael, Goble, Dale D., Svancara, Leona K., Pidgorna, Anna
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2006
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Geology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Other Earth Sciences; Other Environmental Sciences; Canada; Espa; aleutian canada goose; Branta canadensis; Branta canadensis leucopareia; Canada Goose
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/719; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/usgsstaffpub/article/1728/viewcontent/Scott__ES_By_the_Numbers.pdf

The current endangered species list has its administrative beginnings in 1964 when the Department of the Interior's Committee on Rare and Endangered Wildlife Species published a preliminary list of 62 species at risk of extinction (Goble, forthcoming). Following the enactment of the Endangered...