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Publications

• "The Migratory Bird Treaty Act: An Overview," (2012). Co-Authors: Thomas R. Lundquist, Steven P. Quarles, John C. Martin, J. Michael Klise and Sarah Bordelon.
• "The Endangered Species Act: An Overview," (2010). Co-Authors: Thomas R. Lundquist, Steven P. Quarles, John C. Martin, J. Michael Klise and L. Michael Bogert.
• "Chapter 5: Nanotechnology and the Endangered Species Act," Nanotechnology: Environmental Law, Policy, And Business Considerations, American Bar Association (2010). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles, J. Michael Klise and Wm. Robert Irvin.
• "Land Use Activities and the Section 9 Take Prohibition," Chapter 8 of Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy, and Perspectives (Baur & Irwin eds., 2d ed., American Bar Association 2010). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "Chapter 17: Nanotechnology and the Endangered Species Act," Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy, and Perspectives, American Bar Association (2010). Co-Authors: J. Michael Klise, Steven P. Quarles, and Wm. Robert Irvin.
• "The Endangered Species Act and Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- Species, Projects, and Statute At Risk," Proceedings of the 55th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute (2009). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "An Endangered Species Called Respect (Rara Avis Civilitatis): The Descent from Responsible Environmental Policymaking," Endangered Species & Wetlands Report (Aug. 21, 2007). Author: Steven P. Quarles.
• "Chapter 1: The Endangered Species Act: Protecting Species at Risk, Risking Land Uses," 27 Energy & Mineral Law Institute ch. 1 (2007). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "Chapter 10: Have You Got a License for That Tree? (And Can You Afford to Use It?)," Strauss and Bradshaw (eds.), The Bioengineered Forest: Challenges for Science and Society, Resources for The Future (2004). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles, Nancy Bryson and Richard Mannix.
• "Why the ESA Is Different: Eight Reasons," 21 The Environmental Forum 50, Environmental Law Institute (2004). Author: Steven P. Quarles.
• "Taking Stock of 'Take'," Endangered Species & Wetlands Report (January 2003). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "Critical Habitat: Current Centerpiece of Endangered Species Act Litigation and Policymaking," Proceedings of The 48th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute (2002). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "Chapter 12. When Do Land Use Activities 'Take' Listed Wildlife under ESA § 9 and the 'Harm' Regulations," Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy, And Perspectives, American Bar Association (2002). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "The Pronounced Presence and Insistent Issues of the Endangered Species Act," lead article in special wildlife law issue of the ABA journal, 16 Natural Resources & Environment 59 (Fall 2001). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "Encouraging Self-Auditing Within the Pork Industry: The Nationwide Clean Water Act Enforcement Agreement for Agriculture's First Industry-Wide Environmental Auditing Program," 29 Environmental Law Reporter 10395 (1999). Co-Authors: Richard E. Schwartz, Steven P. Quarles and Ellen Steen.
• "The Supreme Court Restricts the Availability of Forest-Wide Judicial Review in Ohio Forestry Ass’n v. Sierra Club," 28 Environmental Law Reporter 10621 (1998). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "The Pit Bull Goes To School: The Endangered Species Act at 25: What Works?," 15 The Environmental Forum 55, Environmental Law Institute (1998). Author: Steven P. Quarles.
• "How the Regulated Community Views Regulation to Protect Living Resources: The Endangered Species Act, Biological Diversity, and Ecosystem Management," Biodiversity Protection: Implementation and Reform of the Endangered Species Act, Univ. of Colo. (1996). Author: Steven P. Quarles.
• "The Success and Failure of Federal Land Planning," The National Forest Management Act in a Changing Society, 1976-1996, Natural Resources Law Center, Univ. of Colo. Law School (1996). Author: Steven P. Quarles.
• "Sweet Home and The Narrowing of Wildlife Take Under Section 9 of the Endangered Species Act," 26 Environmental Law Reporter 10003 (1996). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles, John Macleod and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "The Law of Access Across Federal Lands," The Natural Resources Law Manual, American Bar Association (1995). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles, Thomas R. Lundquist and Rebecca Thompson.
• "Providing Timber Supply from National Forest Lands," The Natural Resources Law Manual, American Bar Association (1995). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "Land Exchanges with The Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service," Land and Permitting, Mineral Law Series, Vol. 1994, No. 1, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (1994). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Charles Rech.
• "Chapter 27. Wetlands Protection Law and The Forest Industry: Exemptions, Recapture, and Glancing Ducks," Proceedings of the 14th Annual Eastern Mineral Law Institute, Eastern Mineral Law Foundation (1993). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles, Thomas Stock and William L. Anderson.
• "The Unsettled Law of ESA Takings," 8 Natural Resources & Environment 10 (1993). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles, John Macleod and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "Access Across and Trespass on Federal Lands," Public Land Law, Mineral Law Series, Vol. 1992, No. 4, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (1992). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "Chapter 6. National Forests and Forestry," Natural Resources Law Handbook, Government Institutes, Inc. (1991). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "You Can Get there From Here: The Alaska Lands Act’s Innovations in the Law of Access Across Federal Lands," 22 Land & Water Law Review 347 (1987). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "The Alaska Lands Act’s Innovations in the Law of Access Across Federal Lands: You Can Get There From Here," 4 Alaska Law Review 1 (1987). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "Federal Land Exchanges and Mineral Development," Proceedings of the 29th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (1984). Co-Authors: Steven P. Quarles and Thomas R. Lundquist.
• "Capitol Hill Views Land Use Issues: A Review of the National Land Use Policy Act," Public and Private Rights In Land: Regulation v. Taking, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Washington (1978). Author: Steven P. Quarles.
• "Federal Policies and Current Legislation on Land Use and Land Use Planning," National Conference on Environmental Law, Standing Committee on Environmental Law, American Bar Association (1975). Author: Steven P. Quarles.

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Client Alerts & Newsletters

• "District Court Imposes Migratory Bird Treaty Act Criminal Liability For "Takes" of Migratory Birds By Unprotected Oil Field Equipment," Environment & Natural Resources Law Alert (September 19, 2012). Contacts: John C. Martin, Steven P. Quarles, Thomas R. Lundquist, Sarah Bordelon.

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In the News

• Crowell & Moring Client Fights to Build Wind Farm
  October 22, 2009 — The Washington Post
  
  

  Crowell & Moring LLP client Invenergy Wind LLC is featured for its fight to build a wind farm in Greenbrier County, WV. The first of it's kind case presents important issues of first impression for the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and its relationship to wind energy projects on private lands. Crowell & Moring defended Invenergy in a four-day bench trial in federal court in Greenbelt, MD that concluded on October 29. The ruling is forthcoming. The trial team included partners Clifford J. Zatz and Kirsten L. Nathanson, associates Jessica A. Hall, and Antonio Gonzalez Mendoza, with support from ESA attorneys Steven P. Quarles, J. Michael Klise, and Thomas R. Lundquist.

  
  
• Biodiversity: A Passion for Science, Politics, or Both
  March 5, 2008 — The Environmental Forum
  
  Environment & Natural Resources Partner Steven P. Quarles was cited for his thoughts on the subject of biodiversity in a recent review of Timothy J. Farnham's book, Saving Nature's Legacy: Origins of the Idea of Biological Diversity. Reviewer and environmental consultant G. Tracy Mehan III, a member of the Board of Directors of the Potomac Conservancy and an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University School of Law, cited the Crowell & Moring partner for his thoughts on the blurring of science, policy, and politics as a contributing factor to the controversy surrounding the Endangered Species Act.
  
  
• Endangered Species Act Faces Broad New Challenges
  June 22, 2005 — New York Times
  
  Steven Quarles, chair of the Natural Resources and Environmental Group, was cited for his insights on the Endangered Species Act.
  
  

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