From the Editor

Whether focused on public or private lands, the goal of this special issue is to explore new frontiers in land management.

Readers speak out

Some great articles, including “Bootleggers, Baptists, and Global Warming in Retrospect,” by Bruce Yandle; “Recycling Redux,” by Daniel Benjamin; and a book review “The Case Against the Hockey Stick,” by Matt Ridley. It was a refreshing read after being nauseated by the amount of talk on “sustainability” (i.e. save the environment, ignore the costs).

Paul Schwennesen

Eminent Domain and Conservation Easements Collide

In 1993, more than thirteen thousand cubit feet of water per second raced down the San Pedro Valley, washing away farms, drowning livestock, and destroying bridges.

Lexi Feinberg

The Yellowstone Bison: Separating fact from fear

Once an icon of the American west, bison are now hazed through costly government-driven efforts and killed in droves around Yellowstone National Park during the winter. Their crime: migrating outside of the park’s borders onto public and private land in Montana, searching for food. Fueling the slaughters is ranchers’ fear of brucellosis, a bacterial diseaseContinue reading "From the Editor"

Reed Watson

A Tale of Two Ranches

Why some ranchers see wildlife as a nuisance while others see it as an asset

Holly Fretwell

The Accidental Environmentalist

Land management lessons from a rancher turned "enviropreneur"

Linda Platts

Eat to extinction

Examining the lionfish "takeover" in waters of the Southeastern U.S. and Caribbean, and what markets are doing to solve it.

Linda Platts

The train that does not stop

A new design for a high speed passenger train has been described by some as a brilliant Chinese innovation.

Linda Platts

A growing fashion trend

Today’s fashions change so quickly that clothes are hardly worn and rarely loved. Barely worn clothes sit in heaps in warehouses across the country.

Jonathan Fahey

Moving the Wind

A lack of transmission lines makes wind farming an iffy crop.