The campaign's biggest success so far was the 1996 overhaul of federal fisheries law. But unless things change we will see some spectacular losses in the future. Salmon, for instance, will disappear from the coast between British Columbia and California. To try to stop such losses, the campaign ultimately aims to overhaul fishing regulations in coastal waters and on the international high seas. Eventually I'd like us to be on a footing of sustainable use where we aren't driving down the overall population anymore.
Forests are home to one-third of the nation's endangered species.
One of the campaign's main goals is to reform the federal Forest Service's policy toward one of stewardship of those species. It hopes also to promote conservation-minded management of private lands, which hold 70 percent of the nation's total forests. Wetlands Eighty percent of the nation's endangered or threatened birds depend on wetlands, and vast numbers of migrating birds use them as stopovers. But about 100,000 acres of wetlands in the United States are destroyed each year. The Wetlands Campaign, launched in 1996, combats this loss by coordinating a wide variety of local, state, and Audubon center wetlands campaigns.