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00D269 disrupt development plans all across the western United states. B. With the emergence of conservation biology and related wildlife and habitat management conservation goals as factors driving wildlife and natural resource management at both the federal and state levels, heightened public awareness of endangered species issues, and increasingly effective advocacy by conservation organizations, we have seen the ESA play an ever-increasing role in dictating natural resource management, conservation, and even pollution control strategies by both federal and state government. Indeed, the ESA is the linchpin in ongoing efforts by the U.s. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management in the Pacific Northwest which are working enormous structural changes in federal resource management in the name of "ecosystem management" and "biodiversity" conservation. c. This paper provides an abbreviated discussion of some of the most significant provisions of the Act, including the listing process, interagency consultation under Section 7, and the "take" prohibition of Section 9 . II. KEY STATUTORY PROVISIONS A. The purpose of the ESA is to establish a program for the conservation of threatened and endangered species and the ecosystems upon which they depend. 16 u.s.c. B 1531 (b) . 1. All federal agencies are directed to conserve threatened and endangered species, and to use their authorities to further the purposes of the Act. 16 u.s.c. B 1531(c) (I). 2. The federal agencies are also directed to "cooperate with State and local agencies to resolve water resource issues in concert with conservation of endangered species." 16 u.s.c. & 1531 (c) (2) . B. section 4 - The Listing Process. 1. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (referred to collectively herein as "the Service") are charged with surveying species status and listing those 2