Again, let's not confuse words. Stewardship is one thing, cooperative work with groups and individuals and so on, but to me the provision of incentives is quite a well-defined thing, which is the provision of financial resources to private landowners, in my particular case in an agricultural constituency, so they will do the things that we all want to conserve endangered species.
Does the listing of a species take into account a species at the edge of its range, one that may be abundant elsewhere but rare in Canada? One in particular is the sharp-tailed grouse, which is considered endangered in Colorado but is very abundant in Montana, North Dakota, western Canada, and so on. If the situation were reversed and we had a species that was rare here but abundant in the United States, would that make a difference in whether that species is listed or not?