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Whitney Tilt

[…] the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the National Audubon Society, and the American Fly Fishing Trade Association Fisheries Fund. Whitney also authored two books, Flora of the Yellowstone and Game on, A Bird Hunter’s Table, Reloaded. He currently manages the Paradise Valley Working Lands Group and directly supports and coordinates PERC’s field projects in […]

Published on: December 10, 2014

Samson Parsimei Lenjirr

[…] destination in the leading world trade fairs. The flagship of this destination is the world famous wildebest migration. Samson was also involved in a collaboration initiative between Yellowstone National Park and the Mara-Serengeti where several exchange programs presented managers of the two largest leading world conservation areas to visit and exchange knowledgeable experience. As […]

Published on: June 7, 2013

Ryan Smith

[…] team that piloted this work for their client—a $500M foundation —analyzing the partner capacity, potential conservation projects and community goals for a keystone landscape within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Based on assessments, Beartooth Capitol proposed a portfolio of 14 projects, ranging from creating a community crane refuge to conservation easement auctions, that would connect […]

Published on: June 7, 2013

Jim Franklin

[…] States and seeks to evaluate the public’s awareness of these issues. Jim has been the director of two Environmental Education facilities — Breteche Creek Ranch located near Yellowstone National Park and Cornell’s Nature Center on Long Island, NY– and an educator in several other programs. He has a keen interest in international environmental issues […]

Published on: June 5, 2013
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Lexi Feinberg

[…] member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and has written movie reviews for Show Business Weekly and BigPictureBigSound.com, among other publications. – See more at: https://www.perc.org/articles/ yellowstone-bison-separating-fact-fear#sthash.cwtgtugG.dpuf Lexi Feinberg served as the deputy opinions editor of Forbes and was a 2010 PERC media fellow. She is a member of the Alliance of Women […]

Published on: October 1, 2012
Donald Leal

Donald Leal

[…] Award and the 1992 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award. A revised edition of the book was published in 2001. Leal also is the co-editor of The Yellowstone Primer: Land and Resource Management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. A volume in the Political Economy Forum Series, Government vs. Environment, published in 2002, is co-edited […]

Published on: October 1, 2012

Hank Fischer

[…] livestock losses caused by wolves. In 1997 he created a similar program for grizzly bears. Fischer was a leader in the ten-year effort to restore wolves to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho, chronicled in his 1995 book, Wolf Wars. More recently, he led a collaborative effort between conservationists, the timber industry and organized […]

Published on: October 1, 2012

The Case for Conservation Abundance

[…] regulatory tools as well as a massive loss of habitat to infrastructure. The risk is real. In the United States alone, over 30 million acres—more than 10 Yellowstone National Park’s worth—of natural areas and farmland could be converted into housing by 2040. The U.S. is expected to add 250,000 to 500,000 acres of new […]

Published on: December 9, 2025

Past Is Prologue in Wyoming and Beyond

[…] I find myself looking to the past—especially the role my state, Wyoming, has had in building a solid foundation. The history of the world’s first national park, Yellowstone, is well known, as is the kind of public-private partnership pioneered by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in the creation of Grand Teton National Park. Between those […]

Published on: December 9, 2025

Conservation Is a Process, Not a Percentage

[…] flawed.  First, why 30 percent? It’s hard to make the case that 30 percent is anything other than an arbitrary goal. Look no farther than the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Seventy percent of the land that comprises the ecosystem is in federal ownership. Yet conserving Yellowstone’s vital elk, mule deer, and pronghorn migration corridors will […]

Published on: December 9, 2025