40 years of the "Endangered Species Act" United States federal law -- discussed on radio forum (PRI)

Broadcast January 3, 2014 on affiliated National Public Radio stations -- 2 p.m. Eastern Time Full weblinks and further information at www.sciencefriday.com/ ___________________ The Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, nearly unopposed. Conservation biologist Joe Roman and environmental historian Peter Alagona discuss how effective the Act has been in the last forty years and what steps could be taken for greater success in the future. Produced by Alexa Lim, Associate Producer Guests Joe Roman Author, Listed: Dispatches From America’s Endangered Species Act McCurdy Visiting Scholar Duke University Marine Laboratory Burlington, Vermont Fellow, Gund Institue for Ecological Economics University of Vermont Peter Alagona Associate Professor, History, Geography and Environmental Studies Author, “After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California” (University of California Press, 2013) University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California