America’s Wildlife Habitat Conservation Act, Explained | PERC

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First, the habitat conservation bill includes a section that would improve incentives for states and landowners to recover endangered and threatened species. It directs the Fish and Wildlife Service, which implements the Endangered Species Act, to issue regulations for threatened species that set incremental recovery targets for the species and reward states and landowners with regulatory relief as those targets are met, giving them a direct stake in whether the species is improving or declining.