A Better Way to Fund Conservation and Recreation
Tate Watkins, Jack SmithFederal oil and gas revenues have generated funding for the great outdoors for decades, but the model warrants reconsideration.
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Federal oil and gas revenues have generated funding for the great outdoors for decades, but the model warrants reconsideration.
Visitors are already helping public lands flourish by contributing revenues that support recreation. Reforms could improve management and benefit visitors even more.
Addressing overdue maintenance is vital, but the root of the problem is a lack of attention to routine maintenance.
Another drop in energy revenues could threaten park maintenance funding.
The default approach to endangered-species policy should be to reward—or at the very least, to avoid punishing—people who provide important and hospitable habitats.
All energy sources come with environmental tradeoffs and extractive activities. Even when it comes to wind and solar, there is no free energy lunch.
While the monarch’s plight is cause for alarm, that the species has not been formally listed may not be.
Recovering endangered and threatened species ultimately depends on broader reforms that respect property rights and provide the right incentives to private landowners.
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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.
If Democrats want to unshackle outdoor recreation programs from fossil fuel money, then it’s time to consider alternatives.
How national park visitors in the United States could help address the need for wildlife conservation efforts beyond park boundaries, using a case study of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Because it’s often against the rules.
How national park visitors in the United States could help address the need for wildlife conservation efforts beyond park boundaries, using a case study of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Conservation pursued through markets and property rights is protected from shifting political winds.
Critical habitat designations that penalize private citizens for essential features found on their land discourage them from maintaining or restoring habitat, benefiting neither property owners nor rare species.
Scaling back federal regulation over isolated wetlands reduces conflict between regulators and private landowners, aligning economic incentives with voluntary conservation objectives.
By recognizing water conservation as a beneficial use, Utah can promote cooperation that can help restore the Great Salt Lake.
The federal Clean Water Act is a notoriously complex statute, imposing federal permitting on a wide variety of land uses, industrial activity, and conservation projects based on turbid regulatory standards.
Conservation pursued through markets and property rights is protected from shifting political winds.
The unintended consequences of California’s price restrictions on insurance rates leave insurers unable to cover losses after catastrophic wildfire damage.
In order to conserve migration corridors, we must reduce the liability of elk borne by landowners by addressing the risk of brucellosis.
It’s incredibly important that we actively support hunting and angling not only because they’re a part of Montana’s identity, but because our wild places need the resources.
Catherine Semcer testifies before the U.S. Senate on the importance of habitat conservation in preventing disease transmission from wildlife to humans.
Reflections on PERC’s milestone anniversary.
Markets can overcome the technological challenge by giving fishers and others the incentive to develop new ways to reduce bycatch.
A podcast on free market environmentalism and its track record around the world.
Markets and property rights are working to solve a variety of environmental problems.