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Greg Kaza

Greg Kaza is executive director of the Arkansas Policy Foundation. He has summited 45 of the 50 state highpoints.

Dave Menicucci

Dave Menicucci is a landowner, hunting guide, and research engineer retired from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico.

Megan Shiverdecker

Megan Shiverdecker is the development coordinator at PERC. Originally from Cincinnati, Megan traveled down south for undergrad where she received a BA in Biological Sciences from Clemson University. Post-graduation, she moved to Montana for a little adventure and fell in love with the Big Sky/Bozeman area. After a few years in Big Sky, Megan returned toContinue reading “Megan Shiverdecker”

Kat Dwyer

Kat Dwyer is PERC’s marketing and media manager. She studied economics at San Jose State University. Kat’s writing has been featured in National Review, the Salt Lake Tribune, The Hill, and the American Institute for Economic Research, among other outlets. As a student of economics and a lover of the great outdoors, she strives to bringContinue reading “Kat Dwyer”

Jim Sterba

Jim Sterba is the author of Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds and winner of the 2013 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. He was a foreign correspondent and national reporter for four decades, first for The New York Times and then for The Wall Street Journal.

Shane Mahoney

Shane Mahoney is president and CEO of Conservation Visions, deputy chair of IUCN’s Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group, international liaison for The Wildlife Society, and executive director of the High Lonesome Institute. His book, The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, co-edited with Valerius Geist, was published in September 2019. He holds both anContinue reading “Shane Mahoney”

Katrina M. Wyman

Katrina M. Wyman is the Sarah Herring Sorin Professor of Law and director of the Environmental and Energy Law LLM Program at New York University. Wyman’s research interests relate primarily to property and natural resources law and policy.

Steven M. Smith

Steven M. Smith is an assistant professor of economics and business at Colorado School of Mines. His research focuses on how society determines the governance of natural resources and the implications of those governance structures. Water is frequently a central feature of the research. Accordingly, he is also an Affiliate Faculty of the Hydrologic Sciences andContinue reading “Steven M. Smith”

Noah Hall

Noah Hall is a professor of law at Wayne State University. His expertise is in environmental and water law, and his research focuses on issues of environmental governance, federalism, and transboundary pollution and resource management. Hall also founded of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center, a nonprofit environmental organization that provides legal assistance to community organizations,Continue reading “Noah Hall”

Joseph Regalia

Joseph Regalia is a clerk at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and an adjunct professor at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law. He is a former IP Litigator at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati where his clients included Google, Groupon, and Phoenix Technologies, among others.