By reducing regulation and increasing market and partnership opportunities, policymakers have the opportunity to promote restoration for healthy forests that provide public conservation benefits while reducing the risk of megafires.
Author Archives: Kat Dwyer
Yellowstone’s ‘Core’ Focus is a Winning Strategy
In Yellowstone, conservation starts with taking care of the people responsible for protecting the park’s resources.
Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis
This report recommends actionable reforms that can help the Forest Service work better with states, tribes, and private partners to fix America’s forests.
California’s Wildfire Crisis
Bad forest management is at the root of the conflagrations.
Improving America’s Ecological Security Requires Public-Private Partnerships
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.
Property Rights are Fundamental to a Free Society—and to Conservation
An attack on conservationists’ rights threaten protections for all of us and to further politicize the environment.
How Economics Can be Applied to the Environment
A podcast on the many economic lessons that can be applied to improve conservation outcomes.
President Biden’s Eco-Moonshot Should Use Markets, Not Mandates
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.
Free Market Environmentalism and the Tragedy of the Commons
A podcast on the role of markets in producing good environmental outcomes.
Oral Testimony Before the Montana House Committee on Fish, Wildlife, and Parks in Support of H.B. 505
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.