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Bill Yellowtail is a senior project specialist with the Cook Center for Sustainable Agriculture, a former Montana state legislator, and a member of the Crow Tribe. He serves on the Boards of Directors of Humanities Montana, the Burton K. Wheeler Center and the National Audubon Society.

Thomas Tanton is the principal of T2 & Associates, an energy consulting firm, and a senior adjunct fellow with the Institute of Energy Research. He has spent more than thirty years evaluating public policy related to energy, the environment, and the economy.

Brijesh Nalinakumari is a university researcher for the Center for Environmental Innovation (CEI) and a Ph.D. candidate in environmental engineering at Arizona State University.

Jay Lehr, Ph.D., is the science director for the Heartland Institute. He is an international renowned scientist and speaker.

Daniel Griswold is an adjunct scholar and former director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute.

Alison Berry was a research fellow at PERC specializing in forest economics and policy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Vermont and a master’s degree in forestry from the University of Montana. Prior to joining PERC, she worked for the U.S. Forest Service as a supervisory botanist and forestry technician.Continue reading “Alison Berry”

Dan Dagget is a writer based in Santa Barbara, California and author of The Right Way To Be Green.

Pamela S. Snyder was a research associate at PERC, where she specialized in water policy. She was raised in Rapid City, South Dakota, and received her B.B. in political science/public management from the University of Oregon, where she was associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation and served as an officer ofContinue reading “Pamela Snyder”

Jody W. Lipford is a professor of economics at Presbyterian College and was a visiting scholar at PERC. He received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Francis Marion College and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Clemson University