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    Bipartisan Wildfire Emissions Prevention Act (WEPA) Advances in Senate

    The bipartisan legislation would address a core contradiction in how the Clean Air Act (CAA) regulates wildfire emissions.

  • Sophie Gilbert Danielle Bissett Tim Male

    Fast Conservation

    Nature recovery can be fast, if we let it

  • Brian Yablonski

    A Once-in-a-Generation Leader: PERC Statement on Cam Sholly’s Retirement

    A statement from PERC CEO Brian Yablonski

  • PERC Interns: In Their Own Words

    This summer, PERC hosted six remarkable interns at our headquarters in Bozeman, Montana.

  • Conservation Takes the Main Stage at Wildlands

    Inside PERC’s weekend as lead conservation beneficiary at the Sixth Annual Wildlands

  • Public Comment: Supporting a tiered approach to grizzly bear recovery

    A tiered 4(d) rule rewards recovery progress and gives states and landowners the clarity they need to keep it going.

  • Bisonomics: The Story Behind America’s Comeback Species

    Explore the private stories—historical and modern—that have always been at the heart of bison conservation in America

  • Alt text for this image: A two-photo composite: on the left, a bison grazes in golden backlit grass at sunrise with three small birds perched along its silhouetted back; on the right, a close-up of a cow facing the camera with tufts of grass hanging from its mouth, lit by the same warm morning light.
    Jonathan Wood

    When Bison Conservation Becomes Grounds for Losing Grazing Permits

    The bison was saved by visionary ranchers. More than a century later, the federal government aims to prevent bison ranching from restoring the American prairie

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