| 1/13/01 | ESA NEWS!: The U.S. Fish and Wildife Service has finally listed nine Texas cave invertebrates, including 5 spiders, as endangered on the U.S. Endangered Species Act. You can read more about it in the USFWS press release, the Federal Register notice, and the GREENLines news item. |
| 10/4/00 | Added some news items: NatureServe® is a source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada. NatureServe is provided by the Association for Biodiversity Information (ABI) a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and providing knowledge about the world's natural diversity. While compiled data on spiders is admittedly sparse, 343 spider species are tracked in these databases, including 108 at risk species. Decent ecological and conservation status reports are available for USESA-listed species or candidates and rarer species. Also: the new 2000 IUCN Red List is available online as a searchable database. No clear changes in the status of spiders since the 1996 Red List have been made. Fixed some broken links on several pages. |
| 9/14/00 | Added new links. The GrassRoots Environmental Effectiveness Network (GREEN), a project of Defenders of Wildlife publishes a daily electronic newsletter called GREENLines. GREEN is a project of Defenders of Wildlife designed to serve grassroots wildlife and wildlands advocates. Two issues with notes related to spider listings are here and here. |
| 10/26/99: | Spider Conservation Symposium Update: The nine papers and an editorial from the Spider Conservation Symposium have been published in the Journal for Insect Conservation and are available in PDF format online. Also: the Kauai cave wolf spider of Hawaii has been listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. |
| 10/26/99: | Updated a few news items on the main page - the criteria for IUCN Red Lists are under review, and nine papers are soon to be published as a result of the 1998 spider conservation symposium. Citations have been added to the bibliography page. |
| 10/18/99: | Geocities is now a part of Yahoo!, and they have once again revised ad requirements. Banners were removed, but an unavoidable smaller pop-up will now appear on all pages - easily dismissed with a doubleclick to the upper right corner. *wink* This site can now be reached through a shorter, more direct address: www.oocities.org/spidercons. Revised and added a few links. |
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4/27/99:
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Fewer annoying pop-ups! I've complied with Geocities ad requirements by adding the Geoguide to each page (this site is hosted for free, after all). Added links to books available from Amazon.com to the Bibliography page. |
| 4/20/99: | Reorganized links page. Added several new links. |
| 4/15/99: | Spring cleaning! All links were checked and dead links were reestablished whenever possible. Several new links were added. |
| 4/15/99: | A proposal to list nine Texas cave invertebrates (including five spider species) as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act has been published in the Federal Register. A public hearing will be held on April 20, 1999 in San Antonio, Texas. The extended comment period closes May 31, 1999. |
| 12/3/98: | Added several new links and updated author page. |
| 8/3/98: | Spider Conservation Symposium Update: Fourteen speakers presented papers in a successful session at the Society for Conservation Biology Meeting in Sydney, Australia. A final list of speakers and their paper abstracts are now available. Papers from the symposium will be published as a Special Issue of the Journal for Insect Conservation. |
| 6/21/98: | Added several new links and revised symposium pages. |
| 4/8/98: | Various updates were made to the Legal Protection and Bibliography pages. |
| 2/19/98: | Spider Conservation Symposium Update: A list of speakers and their presentation topics are now available for a symposium entitled "Issues in Spider Conservation" that will be held at the 1998 meeting of the Society of Conservation Biology in Sydney, Australia. |
| 2/2/98: | Added a black and white line drawing of the Spruce-fir moss spider (Microhexura montivaga) provided by Fred Coyle on the Case Study page. |
| 1/29/98: | Spider Conservation Symposium Update: Details on registration, the program outline, social and other activities, travel arrangements including important information for overseas visitors and information on pre-conference and post-conference tours are now available at the 1998 SCB conference site. |
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1/12/98:
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A Draft Recovery Plan for the Spruce-fir moss spider has been published and may be obtained from the Fish and Wildlife Reference Service in Bethesda, Maryland: 1-800-582-3421 or 301-492-6403. Comments from all interested parties must be received by March 9, 1998. |
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12/22/97:
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A proposal to list the Kauai cave wolf spider of Hawaii as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act has been published in the Federal Register. Comments on this listing action have been requested by the USFWS. Comments from all interested parties must be received by February 3, 1998. Public hearing requests must be received by January 20, 1998. |
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12/20/97:
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Added several new Links and restructured page |
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12/14/97:
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Added Conservation Case Studies page featuring the Spruce-fir moss spider - complete with photos courtesy of Joel Harp. |
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12/8/97:
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Added several new or updated links to Links and Legal Protection |
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12/4/97:
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Revised site structure - added frames with menu and "What's New" page |
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11/18/97:
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Special Announcement - Symposium: Issues in Spider Conservation |
