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.
PERC recommends tripling endangered species recovery and increasing international visitor fees to national parks.
Restoring fire as a natural process supports healthier, more resilient landscapes, benefiting agriculture and recreation.
If we want to help the monarch butterfly thrive, we need policies that work with landowners, not against them.