Administrative Associate
PERC is seeking a service-oriented administrative professional who thrives in supporting a dynamic team and has a love of conservation.
Tending National Parks: What would you pay?
Watch PERC's latest short film that explores how user fees can empower park visitors to directly contribute to the care and maintenance of our national parks.
Addressing Institutional Barriers to Native American Water Marketing
Leslie SanchezPolicy reforms can give tribes full value of their water rights
Testimony on Preventing Pandemics Through U.S. Wildlife-Borne Disease Surveillance
Catherine E. SemcerThe conservation of intact, healthy ecosystems is the first line of defense against the spillover of zoonotic diseases.
Red Tape Prevents Old-Growth Forest Restoration
Hannah DowneyEnsuring that resources make it to the ground in a timely manner will require policy change.
Reconnecting Stranded Public Lands is a Win-Win for Conservation and People
Bryan Leonard, Andrew Plantinga, Claire Powers, Ashley LarsenOpportunities exist to develop conservation reserve networks in the western US that account for landscape connectivity and that benefit both private landowners and biodiversity conservation efforts through land trades and acquisitions.
Mountain & Prairie Podcast: Action-Oriented Conservationist
Brian YablonskiA podcast about PERC's unique approach to conservation and how markets can help address western conservation issues.
3 Ways Markets Are Protecting Our Environment
Kat DwyerMarkets can save the environment. In fact, they’re already doing It.
A Broad Interpretation of WOTUS Undermines Wetland Conservation
Jonathan WoodPERC filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
About PERC
Founded in 1980 in Bozeman, Montana, PERC—the Property and Environment Research Center—is the home of free market environmentalism. Our research is dedicated to harnessing the power of markets and property rights to improve environmental quality.
Research Areas
Public Lands
Fix America’s Forests
A daunting restoration backlog in national Forests fuels the wildfire crisis. With increased funding coming, significant policy and litigation obstacles still stand in the way of forest restoration.
Empowering Good Samaritan Mine Cleanups
Private partners are ready to act, and it’s time policymakers free them to start remediating abandoned mines.
Public Comment on Development of the American Conservation Stewardship Atlas
Implementation of America the Beautiful must proceed with the sensitivities and legitimate interests of private landowners and other private sector leaders in mind.
Wildlife
Can the Big Bad Wolf Save Your Life?
Freakonomics Radio: Research from PERC fellows shows a general economic benefit to the presence of wolves, but complexities abound.
Reconciling the Past and Forging a Future for the African Wildlife Economy
Africa’s iconic wildlife forms a key part of the continent’s identity and is globally significant, both ecologically and economically. As the twenty-first century progresses, how is Africa’s economy likely to evolve and what role will this vital natural heritage play within it?
How Serious Are We, Really, About Protecting The Yellowstone Ecosystem?
If the answer is saving America's greatest wildlife region, then a more valiant and courageous effort aimed at conserving private lands needs to begin right now.
Water
Empowering Tribes Can Help Address the Drought Plaguing the West
Tribal nations deserve to manage their water rights as they so choose.
Let Utahns Decide How to Use Their Water
As demands on water resources shift, water rights owners deserve the ability to respond to conservation needs without fear of losing their water forever.
PERC Reports: Winter 2021
This special edition of PERC Reports brings together researchers, practitioners, and policy experts—and even some “Yellowstone” cast members—to better understand the issues of the Rocky Mountain West.
Private Lands
Can the Big Bad Wolf Save Your Life?
Freakonomics Radio: Research from PERC fellows shows a general economic benefit to the presence of wolves, but complexities abound.
How Serious Are We, Really, About Protecting The Yellowstone Ecosystem?
If the answer is saving America's greatest wildlife region, then a more valiant and courageous effort aimed at conserving private lands needs to begin right now.
“Yellowstone” IRL
A podcast on the special "Yellowstone" edition of PERC Reports
Hunters and Anglers
Transferable Landowner Hunting Permits in Montana
A Roadmap for the State
A Market Solution for Hunting Access
Entrepreneurs are finding creative ways to give hunters access to private land while respecting property rights.
Transferable Landowner Hunting Tags Have Potential
Montana needs new, collaborative solutions that address the needs of landowners while enhancing wildlife conservation.
Fisheries
The Distributional Outcomes of Rights-Based Management in Fisheries
This paper provides a fishery-wide accounting of returns to these diverse stakeholder groups at the vessel level.
Markets, Not Ill-Fitting Regulatory Mandates, Are the Solution to Bycatch
Markets can overcome the technological challenge by giving fishers and others the incentive to develop new ways to reduce bycatch.
Markets and Property Rights are Improving the Environment
A podcast on free market environmentalism and its track record around the world.
Publications
Volume 40, No.2, Winter 2021
Addressing Institutional Barriers to Native American Water Marketing
Conserving Wildlife Habitat with Landowner Hunting Permits
Volume 40, No.1, Summer 2021
Fix America's Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis
A Better Way to Fund Conservation and Recreation
Enhancing the Public Lands Recreation Fee System
Fixing National Park Maintenance For the Long Haul
Prospecting for Pollution: The Need for Better Incentives to Clean Up Abandoned Mines
Volume 38, No.1, Summer 2019
Volume 37, No.1, Summer 2018
