PERC Senior Fellow P.J. Hill joins Garrett on the Cardinal Institute’s Forgotten America podcast to discuss free-market environmentalism and the property rights framework he uses to evaluate conservation issues. P.J. also provides an overview of the American West’s history and debunks the myth of the “wild west.”
A podcast on how markets can be harnessed to improve environmental quality.
Reform of the permitting process could help us address our growing wildfire crisis before it’s too late.
Managing our forests through mechanical thinning and prescribed burns works to reduce wildfire risk.
While alternatives to trophy hunting are desirable, no viable options currently exist that would adequately replace lost conservation funding.
Congress has the opportunity to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires by reforming restoration permitting so critical forest work can be completed in a timely manner.
PERC urges the Department of Agriculture and the Forest Service to revise its grazing program to give permittees more flexibility and to facilitate markets for voluntary conservation on federal lands.