by Laura Huggins Following on the heels of Joe Biden’s recent visit to Yellowstone touting green jobs, PERC senior fellow Roger Meiners exposes the folly in much of the “green” stimulus spending in today’s Wall Street Journal. Not far down the road from Bozeman is the village of Ennis, home to the U.S. Fish and […]
By Roger Meiners Ever-smiling Joe Biden recently popped into Bozeman, Mont., in his carbon-spewing Boeing 757. He came by to give a talk in Yellowstone Park about green jobs, stimulus money, and the “recovery summer.” Let’s look at one tiny piece of the green/stimulus jobs program that the vice president and the Obama administration […]
[…] common to hear of ecological distress. However, both opportunities and problems associated with great ecological abundance may be seen in Montana’s Madison Valley. Lying just northwest of Yellowstone National Park, the Madison presents an eyeful. Vast herds of elk, pronghorn, and deer, along with migrating waterfowl and raptors frequent the area. With ungulates come […]
[…] all parks to increase their entrance fees as they see fit. “I can’t take my family to the movies for $25, but I can take them to Yellowstone for seven days for that,” says Holly Fretwell, a fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center and an adjunct professor of economics at Montana State […]
[…] who is an idea guy, got to thinking about all the nutrient runoff from cultivated fields that was flowing into his pond as well as the nearby Yellowstone River. Based on his experience fishing in pristine Wisconsin lakes with floating islands, it occurred to him that islands might help solve his pond problem and […]
[…] this fall. And if past is prologue, Mike Finley expects to see a significant surge of interest in our nation’s greatest treasures. Finley, a former superintendent for Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Everglades national parks, recalls how “visitors came to the Civil War parks in droves,” after “The Civil War” aired. Couple this with the centennial […]
[…] site are tools of engagement,” Peterson explained. “If the experience ends there, kids and adults are shortchanging themselves of the opportunity to get real in nature.” Virtual Yellowstone Yellowstone National Park has its own virtual activities for school-aged children as well as teachers. Since 2001, Yellowstone has offered electronic field trips—eTrips—to share the resources […]
[…] that coincides with state and local standards to foster partnerships with schools. About 7,500 participants take part each year in courses that range from tracking wolves in Yellowstone (for high school kids) to exploring overturned rocks in a nearby creek. The classes range in cost and are not didactic, Harrison says. “The approach is […]
[…] nonprofit groups are already using private resources to produce positive environmental results. Land trusts, for example, have conserved acreage equivalent to 16 1/2 times the size of Yellowstone National Park, according to studies. And for-profit firms are making unsubsidized profits by producing new services. As T.J. Rogers, chief executive of SunPower Corp., put it: […]
[…] for one person, it is available to all at no cost. Views of mountains is another. The enjoyment you get from knowing that wolves now roam in Yellowstone does not preclude others from the same enjoyment. Environmentalists and economists refer to this public good as an “existence value,” and everyone can enjoy that existence […]