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The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) explores how aligning incentives for environmental stewardship produces sustainable outcomes for land, water, and wildlife.

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  • A Guide for Implementing Conservation Leasing

    Conservation leasing is emerging as a new way to conserve public lands, and changing the way we think about land use in the process. 

  • Temple Stoellinger

    Diversifying State Trust Land Revenue Through Conservation Uses

    This policy brief explores the challenges and opportunities of conservation use on state trust lands.

  • Daniel Kaffine

    Pricing Conservation Leases

    This policy brief attempts to provide guidance for government agencies considering how to price conservation bids for leases on public lands.

  • Dylan Soares Jonathan Wood

    Rewarding Recovery Will Benefit the Wolf and All Imperiled Wildlife

    PERC filed an amicus brief in Defenders of Wildlife v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

  • Jonathan Wood

    BLM’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule: A Debate

    PERC makes the case for leasing federal land for conservation

  • Arthur R. Wardle

    The Search for Markets to Help Manage California’s Groundwater

    What role have groundwater market actually played in implementing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act?

  • Tate Watkins

    How Wild Horse Adoptions Conserve Public Lands and Save Millions of Dollars

    The adoption incentive program is on track to place more than 30,000 animals into private homes during its first decade and save taxpayers more than $800 million in lifetime costs.

  • Jonathan Wood Dylan Soares

    SCOTUS Has an Opportunity to Make NEPA Work for Conservation

    PERC has filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to adopt a workable interpretation of NEPA.

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