GGNRA Endangered Species Big Year Endangered Species Day Celebration

The GGNRA Endangered Species Big Year is a race against time to see and save each of the park's endangered species. On May 18 from 11:30am until 1:30pm, we'll be celebrating national Endangered Species Day at Rodeo Lagoon, located near Ft. Chronkite in the Marin Headlands. This free, fun, and fantastic event will have presentations from the GGNRA's natural resources staff, some free snacks, and then we'll wander Rodeo Lagoon in search of the Tidewater Goby, a small nest-building fish that calls the GGNRA home. We may even have underwater video cameras to aid your search!

Brent Plater's Talk at the Commonwealth Club

Brent Plater spoke at the Commonwealth Club of California on September 25, 2006. The talk was entitled "No Room on the Ark? The 105th Congress' Attempt to Eviscerate the Endangered Species Act."

Hawaiian Picturewings Recognized -- Brent Plater

A few documents about the importance of Hawaiian Picturewings, which I helped protect under the Endangered Species Act.

Hawaiian picture-wings are perhaps the most extraordinary group of Hawaiian insects known to science, and represent one of the most remarkable cases of specific adaptation to local conditions that has been found in any group of animals on Earth. The study of Hawaiian picture-wings has contributed greatly to humanity’s understanding of biology and evolution. Additionally, scientists recently determined that Hawaiian picture-wings and their associated ecological communities have traits that are enormously important in humanity’s search to cure diseases such as West-Nile virus, AIDS and even cancer.

House of Representatives Helps Fight Extinction Bill - Brent Plater

Brent Plater was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle discussing former Representative Dick Pombo;s (R-CA) bill to eviscerate the Endangered Species Act. Some House Democrats such as Rep. George Miller (D-CA) helped stop this bill, and reposted this article on their website.

California Condors and the Endangered Species Act - Brent Plater

Brent Plater discussed the importance of the Endangered Species Act and attempts to eviscerate the statute by developers and the politicians they give money to on central coast public radio.

Debating Pombo's Extinction Bill- Brent Plater

Brent Plater appeared on KQED's Forum show with Michael Krasny to debate pesticide industry lawyers and lobbyists who attempted to eviscerate the Endangered Species Act in 2005-6.

The San Francisco Chronicle's Jane Kay and San Francisco State University's Dr. Carlos Davidson also appeared on the program.

The attempt to eviscerate the Endangered Species Act was thwarted in Congress when the U.S. Senate failed to take up the bill in the 109th Congress.

New Listed Species, New Hope - Brent Plater

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service published this document in the Federal Register recently adding several species to the official list of endangered and threatened species. Each species added to the list were species Brent Plater played a large role in protecting, either as attorney or petitioner:

Partial List of ESA Species listed by Brent Plater:



Not included here were several other species Brent Plater worked to protect over the years, including the Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly, 12 species of Hawaiian Picture-wings, the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher, the North Pacific Right Whale, the Southwest Alaska DPS of the Northern Sea Otter, and a few others.