What Fees Can (and Cannot) Do for Our National Parks
Tate WatkinsThe government-shutdown circus highlights how recreation fees can be a vital part of running parks.
Tate Watkins
Publications Fellow, Research Fellow
Tate Watkins is a research and publications fellow at PERC. He is also managing editor of PERC Reports. He previously worked with small-scale farmers in the Haitian coffee sector, where he helped set up an initiative to boost growers’ production, quality, and livelihoods. Prior to that, he worked as a freelance journalist reporting on economic development and foreign aid.
Watkins earned M.A. and B.A. degrees in economics from Clemson University, served in the Peace Corps in Senegal, and spent two years researching economics and public policy in Washington, D.C. He is a native of Nashville, Tennessee.
