PERC Policy Director Hannah Downey and Senator Steve Daines (MT) join Representative Dan Newhouse (WA), chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus, on his podcast A Voice for Rural America to discuss conservation policy in the rural West. The group discusses the importance of locally-led and voluntary conservation efforts and also dig into the recently released Western Conservation Principles, an alternative to President Biden’s America the Beautiful initiative.
Hannah Downey is the policy director at PERC, helping to bring PERC ideas to the policy world.
Explore the private stories—historical and modern—that have always been at the heart of bison conservation in America
Explore the private stories—historical and modern—that have always been at the heart of bison conservation in America
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