PERC CEO Brian Yablonski joins Ed Roberson of the Mountain & Prairie podcast to discuss PERC’s unique approach to conservation. The two explore how market tools like property rights and voluntary trade can produce good environmental outcomes, what market-based solutions are being tried in the West, and innovative ways to manage both wildlife and public lands.
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.