Market solutions to environmental problems
This report recommends actionable reforms that can help the Forest Service work better with states, tribes, and private partners to fix America’s forests.
Federal oil and gas revenues have generated funding for the great outdoors for decades, but the model warrants reconsideration.
Addressing overdue maintenance is vital, but the root of the problem is a lack of attention to routine maintenance.
In Yellowstone, conservation starts with taking care of the people responsible for protecting the park’s resources.
But there is no reason for believers in individual liberty, property rights, and free markets to abandon the defense of those values when a conservation group’s rights are at stake.
Bad forest management is at the root of the conflagrations.
Efforts like the 30 by 30 initiative have the best chance of delivering the kind of conservation America needs when the government engages with the private sector as an equal partner.
An attack on conservationists’ rights threaten protections for all of us and to further politicize the environment.
A podcast on the many economic lessons that can be applied to improve conservation outcomes.
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.
The Biden administration should come out strongly against the use of regulations or restrictive designations on private lands to reach its target of 30 by 30.
A podcast on the role of markets in producing good environmental outcomes.
A podcast comparing the merits and shortcomings of different approaches to addressing environmental challenges.
A podcast on the role of markets in producing good environmental outcomes.
Expanding landowner hunting tag opportunities is one potential tool that would help offset the costs of elk, make them less of a liability, and promote tolerance and habitat conservation.
A podcast comparing the merits and shortcomings of different approaches to addressing environmental challenges.
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.
The Biden administration should come out strongly against the use of regulations or restrictive designations on private lands to reach its target of 30 by 30.
A podcast on the role of markets in producing good environmental outcomes.
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.
Banning trophy hunting without viable alternatives would imperil biodiversity and undermine local communities.
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.
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.
