Actually, the God Squad WAS convined in 1991 to address the northern spotted owl. The issue was whether the Forest Service and the BLM could move ahead with 44 timber sales (large, old growth Doug Fir). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said that if FS/BLM goes ahead with those timber sales, recovery of the spotted owl was not likely to occur.

The God Squad approved the ESA waiver (chair was Interior Secretary Manual Luhan), with the stipulation that Forest Service and BLM had to also implement the Spotted Owl Recovery Plan. While FS and BLM were contemplating that oxymoron (we'll allow the owl to go extinct, but you have to implement the recovery plan), Bill Clinton got elected. His Interior Secretary (Bruce Babbitt) srapped the 44 timber sales entirely, so the proposed action never went forward. And the spotted owl recovery plan was never implemented. The Northwest Forest Plan was supposed to do that, but it never really accomplished what it was intended to do.

That was the last time the GS was conviened. I don't expect it to happen again anytime soon.