A lot has been written in public venues about the interaction of crop protection products used in agriculture and the Endangered Species Act (ESA), with most authors focusing on the potential for impact on listed species with the use of individual products. This individual crop protection product approach also dominates the regulatory story lines, since the approval and registration review processes led by EPA are oriented toward individual products; this individual product approach is carried forward in the EPA interaction with the Services that have the responsibility of implementing ESA. Frequently Services take an individual species approach when considering their listing decisions and designing their recovery programs. The premise of this presentation is that continuing to focus on individual products and species in public dialogue as well as in regulatory systems does little to benefit endangered species, as it deflects attention and resources away from what should be the primary goal: to manage the agroecosystem to the benefit of both agriculture and endangered species.

Agroecosystem approach for endangered species

256th National Meeting (2018)

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