Public Lands

Yellowstone’s ‘Core’ Focus is a Winning Strategy

Shawn Regan

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

Holly Fretwell,  Jonathan Wood

This report recommends actionable reforms that can help the Forest Service work better with states, tribes, and private partners to fix America’s forests. 

Supporting Property Rights for Conservation Nonprofits

Hannah Downey

But there is no reason for believers in individual liberty, property rights, and free markets to abandon the defense of those values when a conservation group’s rights are at stake.

California’s Wildfire Crisis

Shawn Regan

Bad forest management is at the root of the conflagrations.

Improving America’s Ecological Security Requires Public-Private Partnerships

Catherine E. Semcer

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

Jonathan Wood,  Brian Yablonski

An attack on conservationists’ rights threaten protections for all of us and to further politicize the environment.