Previous Lone Mountain Fellows

• Joseph Aldy: Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University
  Topic: Information Provision and Countervailing Risks: The Case of UV-Index and Ozone Pollution Forecast

• Sarah Anderson: Associate Professor in Environmental Politics at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Topic: Salience of Wildfire Risk and the Management of Public Lands

• Ron Bailey: Science Correspondent for Reason
  Topic: The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the 21st Century

• Spencer Banzhaf: Professor in the Department of Economics at Georgia State University
  Topic: The Local Provision of Public Goods
  Seminar: Pricing the Tiebout Commons: Capitalization as a Two-Part Tariff

• Jeff Bennett: Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University
  Topic: Managing the Australian Outback

• Prashant Bharadwaj: Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California
  Topic: Dust Exposure & Infant Mortality in West Africa: Lessons for Climate Adaptation

• Karen Clay: Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
  Topic: Electricity Generation and Air Pollution in an Unregulated Environment: The United States, 1938–1963
  Seminar: Canary in a Coal Mine: Impact of Mid-20^th Century Air Pollution on Infant Mortality and Property Values

• Robert Deacon: Emeritus Professor of Economics and Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara
  Topic: Protecting Marine Ecosystems: Regulation Versus Market Incentives

• Corbett Grainger: Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Topic: Property Rights, Regulatory Capture, and Natural Resource Exploitation

• Seigi Karasaki: Conservation Analyst at the Breakthrough Institute
  Topic: Water Quality and Conservation in the Catskills Watershed: Ecosystem Services or Passive Protection?

• Alex Kasterine: Head of the Trade and Environment Programme with the International Trade Center
  Topic: A Political Economy Framework for Analyzing the Illegal Trade in Wildlife

• Kyle Meng: Assistant Professor in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara
  Topic: Path Dependence in U.S. Coal-fired Electricity Production

• Dwight Newman: Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Rights in Constitutional and International Law at the University of Saskatchewan
  Topic: Why Canadian Courts are Creating Indigenous Property Rights with Economically Dysfunctional Characteristics

• Dominic Parker: Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Topic: From Plows to Horizontal Fracking: Anti-commons and Unintended Consequences of Land Privatization

• Mark Pennington: Professor of Public Policy and Political Economy at King’s College of London
  Topic: Realistic Idealism and the Ethics of Market Environmentalism

• Margarita Portnykh: Post-Doctoral Fellow in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
  Topic: Migration as an Adaptation Response to Climate Change

• Steven Puller: Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University
  Topic: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Energy Efficiency Policy in the Transportation Sector

• Matthew Turner: Professor of Economics at Brown University
  Topic: Urban Form and Driving: Evidence from U.S. Cities

• Bart Wilson: Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics and Law at Chapman University
  Topic: Language and Cooperation in Hominin Scavenging

• Frank Wolak: Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the Economics Department at Stanford University
  Topic: Water Pricing to Manage Revenue and Sales Risk

• Erez Yoeli: Post-Doctoral at Harvard University
  Topic: Averting Partisan Disputes of Potentially Divisive Issues

2014

• Jeff Bennett: Professor of Environmental Management and Development Program, Australian National University
  Topic: Can PES schemes mimic markets?

• Linus Blomqvist: Director of Research, The Breakthrough Institute
  Topic: Saving Nature by Making it Useless

• Eric Claeys: Professor of Law, George Mason University
  Topic: On Taking Water “Out of the Hands of Nature”: Lockean Labor Theory and the Colorado Doctrine

• Josh Eagle: Solomon Blatt Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
  Topic: The Incentives of a Resource Owner: Evidence from a Private Oyster Fishery

• Eric Edwards: Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, Utah State University
  Topic: The Role of Property Rights in Bureaucratic Environmental Good Provision: Case Analysis from Northern Chile
  Seminar: Interest Group Competition and Government Provision of Environmental Public Goods

• Daniel Kaffine: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder
  Topic: Fiscal and Environmental Federalism Literature into a Natural Resource Management Framework
  Seminar: When to Decentralize Renewable Resource Management

• Matthew Neidell: Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
  Topic: Pollution, Health, and Decision Making
  Seminar: Temperature, Performance, and Human Capital

• Sheila Olmstead: Associate Professor of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
  Topic: Induced Development in Risky Locations: Fire Suppression and Land Use in the American West

• Dominic Parker: Assistant Professor of Agriculture and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  Topic: The Effect of the Tax Code on Private Land Conservation

• Matthew Turner: Professor of Economics, Brown University
  Topic: Subways and Urban Growth: Evidence from Earth

• Roger Von Haefen: Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University
  Topic: Residential Electricity Demand
  Seminar: Conservation Policies: Who Responds to Price and Who Responds to Prescription?

• Quinn Weninger: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
  Topic: Economic Performance in the Early Stages of the West Coast Groundfish Trawl Catch Share
  Seminar: The Cost of Overconfidence: Evidence from the Last True Hunters

• Frank Wolak: Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies, Department of Economics, Stanford University
  Topic: Electricity in California
  Seminar: Expecting the Unexpected: Emissions Uncertainty and Environmental Market Design

• Andrew Yates: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Topic: The Optimal Scale for Water Quality Markets

2013

• Bart Wilson: Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair of Economics and Law, Chapman University
  Topic: The Meaning of Property in Things
  Seminar: Further Towards a Theory of the Emergence of Property

• Carson Bruno: Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute
  Topic: Hydraulic Fracturing: Sow’s Ear or Silk Purse?

• Rob Fleck: Professor of Economics, Clemson University
  Topic: The Foundations of Wealth-Enhancing Democracy: Aristotle, Lindaul, and Institutional Design in Ancient Greece

• Matthew Turner: Professor of Economics, University of Toronto
  Topic: Land Use Regulation and Welfare

• Chuck Podolak: Duke University
  Topic: Challenges to Water Markets
  Seminar: Conditional Water Rights in Colorado: Speculation in Disguise?

• Fr. Gregory Jensen: University of Wisconsin – Madison
  Topic: Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Property Rights and the Environment
  Seminar: The Moral Case for Property Rights in Light of the Tradition of the Orthodox Church

• Quinn Weninger: Associate Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Iowa State University
  Topic: Ecosystems Based Fisheries Management
  Seminar: Fishing Behavior Across Space, Time and Depth: With Application to the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Fishery

• Tracy Mehan: Principal in the Environmental Science and Policy Division, The Cadmus Group
  Topic: Who Owns the Environment?

• Daniel Botkin: Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Topic: Markets and Nature as Processes

• Maximilian Auffhammer: Associate Professor in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department and Director of the International Areas Studies Teaching Program, University of California – Berkeley
  Topic: Climate Change
  Seminar: Quantifying Intensive and extensive margin adaptation responses to climate change: A study of California’s Residential Electricity Consumption

2012

• Randal Rucker: Professor of Agricultural Economics at Montana State University
  Topic: Indian and Non-Indian Salmon Fisheries
  Seminar: The Microeconomics of a Natural Resource Boom: Evidence from the Washington State Tribal Fishery

• Andrew Hanssen: Professor of Economics at Clemson University
  Topic: Eminent Domain in the 19th Century Railroad Boom
  Seminar: Courts, Legislatures, and the Adaptability of Property Rules: Eminent Domain in the 19th Century Railroad Boom

• Michael ‘t Sas-Rolfes: Wildlife Consultant in South Africa
  Topic: Markets for Wildlife
  Seminar: Can Legal Trade in Rhino Horn Save Rhinos?

• Tim Fitzgerald: Professor of Agricultural Economics at Montana State University
  Topic: Incorporating Water Quality into Prior Appropriation
  Seminar: Prior Appropriation and Water Quality

• Sarah Hallier: International Relations Graduate Student at Harvard University
  Topic: Markets for Wildlife
  Seminar: Evaluating the Role of CITES in Protecting Rhinos

• Jonathan Klick: Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania
  Seminar: Plastic Bag Bans and Foodborne Illness

• Gary Libecap: Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
  Seminar: Addressing Global Externalities: Transaction Costs Considerations

• Quinn Weninger: Professor of Economics at the University of Iowa
  Topic: Market Speculation and Environmental Permits
  Seminar: Fleet Rationalization Under Individual Transferable Quotas

• Frank Wolak: Professor of Economics at Stanford University
  Topic: Increasing the IQ of the Smart Grid
  Seminar: An Experimental Comparison of Critical Peak and Hourly Pricing: The PowerCentsDC Program

• J.B. Ruhl: Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School
  Topic: Global Climate Change and US Law: The Next Legal Frontiers

• Jonathan Yoder: Professor of Economics at Washington State University

• Dean Lueck: Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona
  Topic: Economic Organization and Wildfire: Complex Property Rights and Emergency Conditions

• Jason Johnston: Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School
  Topic: Global Warming and the End of Environmental Law

• John Briscoe: Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health at Harvard University
  Topic: The Challenge of Water in a Changing World

• Dominic Parker: Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Topic: Natural Resources and American Indians: The Unintended Consequences of Conflict Mineral Regulations

• Harrison Zeff: Environmental Engineering PhD Candidate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Topic: Incentives for Water Utilities and Consumers During Drought

2011

• Claire Priest: Professor of Law at Yale Law Scool
  Topic: Creating an American Property Law
  Seminar: The Colonial Transformation of Property and the Formation of an American Legal Order, 1650-1820

• Christopher Costello: Professor of the Environmental and Resource Economics at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UC Santa Barbara
  Topic: Enhanced Conservation Via Marine Property Right

• Bart J. Wilson: Joint appointments with the Argyros School of Business and Economics, the School of Law, and the Wilkinson College of Humanites & Social Sciences at Chapman University.
  Topic: Territorial foundations of human property

• Daniel Kaffine: Assistant Professor in the Division of Economics and Business at the Colorado School of Mines
  Topic: Severable wind rights from an economic perspective
  Seminar: Wind Power and Split Estate

• Dino Falaschetti: Associate Professor of Law and Economics at Florida State University
  Topic: Transactions cost leadership
  Seminar: Transactions cost leadership on the politics, law, and economics of creating wealth and spreading opportunity

• Eric Coleman: Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida State University
  Topic: The effects of different types of property rights on environmental sustainability
  Seminar: Property Rights and Environmental Sustainability: Household Evidence from Bolivia, Kenya, Mexico, and Uganda

• James Salzman: Joint appointments at Duke University at the Samuel Fox Mordecai Professor of Law and as the Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy
  Topic: Game Theory
  Seminar: Gaming the Past: The Theory and Practice of Historic Baselines in the Administrative State

• Jeffrey Bennett: Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society
  Topic: Little Green Lies
  Seminar: Property Rights and Land Degradation in China

• Jonathan Adler: Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  Topic: Firm theory and contemporary pollution problems
  Seminar: Property Rights and Land Degradation in China

• Matthew Neidell: Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University
  Topic: Willingness to pay for water quality

• Matthew Kahn: Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the Department of Economics, and the Department of Public Policy
  Topic: Cities adaptation to climate change
  Seminar: How will climate change impact urbanities and their cities?

• Michael ‘t Sas-Rolfes: Sustainability Economist and Consultant
  Topic: International Wildlife Trade Policy

• Richard Rice: President of the Save Your World Foundation
  Topic: Misaligned Incentives and Trade-offs in Allocating Conservation Funding
  Seminar: Property rights and conservation agreements in developing countries

• Sergey Mityakov: Professor of Economics at Clemson University
  Topic: Oil trade diversification, international relations, and energy security
  Seminar: Political Limits on World Oil Trade

• Randy Rucker: Professor of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University
  Topic: Pollination markets and colony collapse disorder in bee populations
  Seminar: The Economic Consequences of Bee Disease

• Steven Medema: Professor of Economics and the Director of the University Honors and Leadership Program at the University of Colorado Denver
  Topic: Coase and the Environment
  Seminar: Of Coase and Carbon: The Coase Theorem in Environmental Economics, 1960–1979

• Todd Zywicki: Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University
  Topic: Takings Law
  Seminar: The Political Economy of Takings Law: Of Public Use and Just Compensation

2010

• Bart J. Wilson: Joint appointments with the Argyros School of Business and Economics and the School of Law at Chapman University.
  Topic: Whaler’s Rule of Capture
  Seminar: The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture (with Taylor Jaworski, Karl Schurter, and Andrew Smyth)

• Matthew Turner: Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto.
  Topic: Urban Travel/Road Congestion

• Brian Steed: Researcher and teacher in the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.
  Topic: Water Rights
  Seminar: The impact of adjudication on groundwater resources: An over time look at groundwater governance in Los Angeles County, California

• Paul Schwennesen: Double Check Ranch.
  Topic: Conservation Easements
  Seminar: When Eminent Domain and Conservation Easements Collide: An Arizona Ranching Family Finds Itself in a Conservation Quagmire

• Kurt Schnier: Associate Professor of Economics at Georgia State University. .
  Topic: Fisheries
  Seminar: Regional delivery impacts in rights-based fisheries

• Mark Sagoff: Director and Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park.
  Topic: Markets for Ecological Services
  Seminar: The Quantification and Valuation of Ecosystem Services

• Matthew Neidell: Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, at Columbia University.
  Topic: Impact of environmental conditions on worker productivity

• Robert H. Nelson: Professor of Environmental Policy at the School of Public Policy of the University of Maryland and a senior scholar at the Mercatus Center. .
  Topic: Land Forum
  Seminar: The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion versus Environmental Religion

• Jason Johnston: Professor of Law and Director, Program on Law, the Environment, and the Economy, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.
  Topic: Optimal Degree of Regulatory Deference to Scientific Experts
  Seminar: Profits or Social Networks: What Determines the Bribe Payments Made by Entrepreneurs in Eastern Europe?

• Todd BenDor: Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  Topic: Assessing Regulatory and Entrepreneurial Risk in US Wetland and Stream Markets
  Seminar: Forces Promoting U.S. Wetland and Stream Banking

• Larry Chavis: Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.
  Topic: Weak Institutions and Ability of American Indians to Become Entrepreneurs
  Seminar: Profits or Social Networks: What Determines the Bribe Payments Made by Entrepreneurs in Eastern Europe?

• Christopher Costello: Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California-Santa Barbara.
  Topic: Spatiality
  Seminar: Marine protected areas in spatial property-rights fisheries, Unitization of spatially connected renewable resources

• Anca M. Cotet: Assistant Professor of Economics at Ball State University
  Topic: Climate Change Mitigation
  Seminar: Technological Improvement and Climate Change Mitigation: Evidence from the Diffusion of Air Conditioning and Seasonal Mortality in the United States

• Rebecca Goldman: Central Science Division of the Nature Conservancy
  Topic: Markets for Ecosystem services in Patagonia
  Seminar: Ecosystem Services: Developing Markets to Help Conserve Patagonia Grasslands Proposal and Work Plan for Advancing Ecosystem Service Contracting

• David Haddock: Professor of Law and Economics at Northwestern University
  Topic: CAFE: The Corporate Average Fuel Economy Mandate

2009

• Jonathan Adler: Professor and Director, Center for Business Law and Regulation, Case Western University School of Law
  Topic: Labeling law—the extent to which the government can require companies to disclose truthful information

• Sarah Anderson: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California-Santa Barbara
  Topic: The problem with neighbors: Jurisdictions and resource use

• H. Spencer Banzhaf: Associate Professor of Economics at Georgia State University
  Topic: Markets for Land and Pollution: The Political Economy of Environmental Justice

• Olivier Deschenes: Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
  Topic: The Impact of Climate Change on Health in India: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather

• Eric Mack: Professor of Philosophy, Tulane University
  Topic: The Natural Right of Property

• Gregory L. Poe: Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economic Management, Cornell University
  Topic: Primer on Water Trading

• Larry E. Ribstein: Visiting Professor of Law, New York University Law School
  Topic: The Market for Environmental Law

• Robert P. Saldin: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Montana
  Topic: The Role of Natural Resources in Western Politics

• Kurt E. Schnier: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Georgia State University
  Topic: Production Efficiency, Exit, and Co-op Formation in Rights-Based Fisheries

• Kevin Tsui: Assistant Professor of Economics, Clemson University
  Topic: Economic and Environmental Curse of Oil: Dutch Disease or Malthusian Trap?

2008

• Steve Bick: Consulting Forester and Adjunct Faculty Member, State College of New York-College of Environmental Science and Forestry
  Seminar: Forest Enterprise of the Adirondacks

• Christopher Costello: Assistant Professor, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California-Santa Barbara
  Topic: Can spatial property rights fix fisheries?

• Jason Johnston: Professor of Law and Director, Program on Law, the Environment, and the Economy, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
  Topic: Climate change hysteria and the Supreme court: On the Economic Impact of Global Warming on the U.S. and the misguided Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act

• Dean Lueck: Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Co-director, Program on Economics, Law, and the Environment, University of Arizona
  Topic: Domestication and ownership of wild species

• G. Patrick Lynch: Senior Fellow, Liberty Fund
  Seminar: From Eden to Leviathan: The Evolution of Politics from the State of Nature

• Josiah Ober: Professor of Classics and Political Science, Stanford University
  Seminar: Epistemic democracy in classical Athens: How diversity can foster innovation

• Julian Morris and Kendra Okonski: International Policy Network, London
  Seminar: Which Policy to Address Climate change

• Dominic Parker: Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University
  Topic: Rule of law and access to credit on American Indian reservations

• Matthew Ridley: English business man and popular science author
  Seminar: The Ecology of Human Progress

2007

• Sarah Anderson: Associate Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Department of Political Science, University of California-Santa Barbara
  Topic: Analysis of environmental voting behavior
  Seminar: The Green Machine: Environmental Constituents and Congressional Voting

• Steve Bick: Consulting Forester and Adjunct Faculty Member, State College of New York-College of Environmental Science and Forestry
  Publication: “Ownership and Stewardship Go Hand in Hand: One Family, Many Acres and Seven Generations of Ownership,” PERC Reports, Summer 2008

• Nicholas Georgiadis: Director, Mpala Reserach Center, Nanyuki, Kenya
  Topic: Conserving wildlife in African Landscapes: Kenya’s Ewaso Ecosystem,
  Seminar: The Wonder and Decline of Animal Migrations

• Michael Norton-Griffiths: Independeent Wildife Consultant, Kenya
  Topic: Economic impact of secure property rights in Kenya’s agricultural sector, and the rapid evolution of property rights on Kenya’s rangelands
  Seminar: Contemporary issues of land tenure in Kenya

• J. Bishop Grewell: Attorney, Mayer Brown, LLP, Chicago
  Topic: Analysis of voluntary pollution easements purchased by the Anaconda Mining Company at the turn of the 20th Century
  Seminar: In Search of Entitlements: One Explanation to the Damages/Injunction Choice

• D. Bruce Johnsen: Professorof Law, George Mason University
  Topic: Property rights, Institutioins, and salmon fishing practices of the Northwest Coast Indian tribes
  Seminars: Socially Responsible Investing PERC Style: A Preliminary Investigation; Science, Salmon, and Primitive Man on the Northwest Coast

• Kurt E. Schnier: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Georgia State University
  Topic: The value of a statistical life and rights-based fisheries policy: The Case of the Alaskan Crab Fishers
  Seminars: Common property information, and cooperation: Commercial fishing in the Bering Sea; Occupational Risk and Rights-based fisheries Policy: Studying Changes in the Deadliest Catch

• James Workman: Natural Resource Consultant and Founder, Confluence Associates, Botswana
  Publications: “Tapping our ingenuity,” News Tribune, Nov. 25, 2007
  “The Water Ethic: Fitful Birth of a certain Alienable Right,” Draft paper, Dec.1, 2007

2006

• Nigel Asquith: Director of Science, Fundacion Natura Bolivia, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
  Topic: Promoting markets for watershed services in Bolivia: Can the FME model be exported? The Case of Los Negros-Santa Rosa
  Seminar: Evaluating intervention policies (e.g. markets for environmental services) in protecting the Environment and Reducing Poverty: Shifting focus from measuring and monitoring ‘inputs’ and ‘outputs,’ to quantified and replicated measurement of outcomes (with Maria Teresa Vargas)
  Publications: “Bees and Barbed Wire for Water,” PERC Reports, December 2006
  “Selling Two Environmental Services: In-kind payments of bird habitat and watershed protection in Los Negros, Bolivia,” with Maria Teresa Vargas, and Sven Wunder, Ecologial Economics, 65(4) 2008, 675-684.
  “Tratos, Justos Para Servicios Hidrolgicos en Bolivia,” with Maria Teresa Vargas. London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and Fundacion Natura Bolivia

• Steve Bick: Consulting Forester and Adjunct Faculty Member, State College of New York-College of Environmental Science and Forestry
  Publication: Adirondack Forest Owner’s Manual Forest Enterprise Institute, April 2007

• Ted Gayer: Associate Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
  Topic: The Effects of the Endangered Species Act on Economic Development

• David Haddock: Professor of Law and Economics, Northwestern Univeristy
  Topic: Government provision of public bads
  Seminar: Bad public goods: The public goods paradox: Quis custodiet ipsos custodies? (with Alison Berry)
  Publication: “Warning: Army Corps of Engineers Project Ahead,” PERC Reports, Fall 2007

• Randy Rucker: Professor of Economics, Department Agricultural Economics and Econmics, Montana State University
  Topic: Indian and Non-Indian Salmon Fisheries: The Economic Effects of U.S. v. Washington
  Seminar: The Alaskan Crab Rationalization Program: Experiences in the First Two Seasons

• Mitch Tobin: Former reporter for the the Arizona Daily Star
  Topic: Legislating Noah’s Ark: Why the Endangered Species Act is not working. Book draft
  Publication: “Save a Species, Save on Taxes,” PERC Reports, Fall 2007

• Maria Teresa Vargas: Executive Director, Fundacion Natura Bolivia
  Topic: Promoting Markets for Watershed Services in Bolivia: Can the FME Model be Exported? The Case if Los Negros-Santa Rosa
  Seminar: Evaluating intervention policies (e.g. markets for environmental services) in protecting the Environment and Reducing Poverty: Shifting focus from measuring and monitoring ‘inputs’ and ‘outputs,’ to quantified and replicated measurement of outcomes (with Nigel Asquith)

• James Workman: Natural Resource Consultant and Founder, Confluence Associates, Botswana
  Topic: Michael Milken Meets John Muir: Turning Fixed Liabilities into Liquid Assets
  Publication: “Deadbeat Dams: Perhaps It’s Time to Pull the Plug,” PERC Reports, Enviropreneur Issue
  “How to Fix our Dam Problems,” Science and Technology, The University of Texas, Dallas, Fall 2007.

• Seth Zuckerman:
  Publication: “Unpaved with Good Intentions: New Easements Keep Farmland in Production, Despite Spiraling Property Values,” High Country News, Sept. 18, 2006