NMFS announced its 90-day finding on a petition to list the Northern California summer-run steelhead as an endangered distinct population segment under the ESA, finding that the petition may be warranted; the agency will conduct a status review for the species.

The April issue of News and Analysis presents articles on: regulating food demand in the age of climate change, using the Money Laundering Control Act to prosecute illegal wildlife trade, exploring strategies to change the National Flood Insurance Program for a changing climate, and the emerging concept of environmental constitutionalism. The issue also includes a transcript from a webinar hosted by ELI in October that offered an in-depth discussion on the challenges that indigenous peoples face in defending the legitimacy of and intellectual property in traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), and the potential for TEK to meet today's most pressing environmental challenges.