well since you respect this organizations opinion here's some reading for you , what made me think of this is that this organization started the same year as the eastern recovery plan ………..without the government ban on ddt like pesticides/insecticides none of it would have mattered anyway ……..
Chapter 32Using Science and Technology to Reestablish Species Lost in Nature
TOM J. CADE
Director of Raptor Research, Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219263/
Louisiana Alligator Ranching, 1986-2010
Historical Data
Louisiana Wildlife&Fisheries
http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/sites/...33674-historical-data/ranchingtable4-4-11.pdf
Chapter 32Using Science and Technology to Reestablish Species Lost in Nature
TOM J. CADE
Director of Raptor Research, Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219263/
Although the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency that administers the Endangered Species Act, is nominally in charge of the program, The Peregrine Fund has also worked closely with the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, and to some extent with other federal agencies, as well as with 13 state wildlife departments and, occasionally, with county and municipal authorities. Last year no fewer than 50 government agencies and offices, conservation organizations, universities, and businesses of one sort or another, were directly involved in some aspect of the eastern program. Financial support has come from numerous conservation organizations, foundations, corporations, several thousand private individuals, and federal and state agencies.
Louisiana Alligator Ranching, 1986-2010
Historical Data
Louisiana Wildlife&Fisheries
http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/sites/...33674-historical-data/ranchingtable4-4-11.pdf