Policy Director
Hannah Downey is the policy director at PERC, helping to engage PERC ideas in environmental policy decisions. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, The Salt Lake Tribune, and local papers. After being introduced to PERC in college, she pursued the ideas of free market environmentalism and became a PERC research assistant. She graduated from Montana State University with degrees in economics and political science in 2015.
Though she grew up in the Midwest, Hannah was lucky enough to spend her summers in Montana. Throughout college she worked as a backpacking guide in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Hannah now calls Bozeman home and fills her spare moments with skiing, mountain biking, fishing, and enjoying the wonderful outdoors.
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Allowing APR to graze privately-owned bison on its federal allotments respects APR’s rights and, ultimately, honors all landowners’ rights to exercise their grazing privileges while promoting the health of federal lands.
The BLM and the Wild Horse and Burro Program should focus their efforts on assuring and enhancing the integrity of the Adoption Incentive Payment program through enforcement, rather than heeding calls to dismantle the program as a whole.
The initial principles put forward by the Biden administration offer the opportunity to promote market-based environmentalism.
A podcast on the market's role in fostering healthy forests.
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.
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.