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  • Tate Watkins

    PERC Reports, Winter 2025/26

    This special issue contemplates big ideas for the next era of conservation.

  • Lindsay Coe

    Stewards of the Open Ranges

    Across America’s private lands, those who live closest to the wild both enjoy the beauty of it and carry the burden of sharing it. They also hold the key to its future.

  • Sophie Gilbert

    The Case for Conservation Abundance

    How fixing America’s affordability crisis points toward a conservation future defined by plenty rather than scarcity

  • Rupert Munro

    Conservation from the Ground Up

    On a Colorado ranch, an elk-migration pact shows how voluntary partnerships and private landowners will propel American conservation

  • Hannah Downey

    The Need for Speed

    Outdated laws, litigation delays, and bureaucratic red tape are slowing vital conservation work—especially in America’s fuel-choked forests

  • I Ling Thompson

    The Power of the People in the Future of Our Public Lands  

    Together, we can build a future where every American feels ownership, pride, and purpose in caring for the places that define us all.

  • Greg Schildwachter

    Ending the Era of Precaution

    Stewardship recalls what is still known of gardening but has been forgotten about larger ecosystems.

  • Rob Wallace

    Past Is Prologue in Wyoming and Beyond

    The desire to protect the health of public lands is in the DNA of a vast majority of citizens in the West.

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