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Public Lands and Outdoor Recreation
Promoting Innovation and Diffusing Conflict Over Federal Grazing Lands
PERC urges the Department of Agriculture and the Forest Service to revise its grazing program to give permittees more flexibility and to facilitate markets for voluntary conservation on federal lands.
Opening the Range: Reforms to Allow Markets for Voluntary Conservation on Federal Grazing Lands
“Use it or lose it” requirements can exacerbate conflict by giving ranchers and conservation interests no alternative to political, legal, or administrative conflict.
Without Reforms to the Environmental Review Process, Wildfires Will Grow Worse
Exhaustive environmental reviews and litigious environmental activists delay, and sometimes prevent, urgently needed forest restoration projects.
Public Comment on Mining Regulations, Laws, and Permitting
Private organizations have the potential to help in cleaning up existing mines and identifying areas where conservation is valued over mining through market bidding.
Permitting Reform Push Should Include Forest Restoration
A thoughtfully tailored permitting reform bill can provide a boost to the environment.
How Environmental Activists and Reviews Can Worsen Wildfires
An undergrowth of red tape and litigation stands in the way of the Biden administration’s 10-year forest-management plan.
Protecting Our Nation’s Most Cherished Forests Through Active Forest Management
The destruction of sequoias in recent years must serve as a wake-up call to the need to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires.
Fight Fire With Fire
What Florida gets right about using controlled burns to prevent damaging wildfires, and what California could learn from it.
Testimony Before the U.S. House on America’s Wildfire Crisis
If Congress can work with the Forest Service to make reforms that promote collaboration instead of conflict and increase partnership opportunities, forest managers can make true progress to fix America’s forests.