ARE WE RECOVERING? AN EVALUATION OF RECOVERY CRITERIA UNDER THE U.S. ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT.

The article evaluates the wildlife recovery criteria under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). It discusses the amendment of ESA to require that recovery plans include objective criteria for delisting. It describes the temporal trends in the use of recovery criteria, patterns of use for different categories of recovery criteria, and the relationship between categories of recovery criteria and population status.