Parks in Transition: A Look at State Parks RS-97-1 1997 By Donald R. Leal and Holly Lippke Fretwell Table of Contents Introduction Nevada Michigan Overview Utah South: State Park Systems Colorado Alabama West: New Mexico South Carolina Texas Arizona Kentucky California Midwest: Arkansas Washington North Dakota East: Oregon South Dakota West Virginia Idaho Oklahoma New Hampshire […]
[…] Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Water Rights: Scarce Resource Allocation, Bureaucracy, and the Environment, edited by Terry L. Anderson. San Francisco: Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research, 1983. The Yellowstone Primer: Land and Resource Management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, edited by JohnBaden and Donald R. Leal. San Francisco: Pacific ResearchInstitute for Public Policy, 1990.
[…] percent of the additional revenues they earn. And in 1994, parks were granted permission to charge for special use permits and keep the fees. With this incentive, Yellowstone introduced a modest fishing fee of $5 for a seven-day permit. This single fee raised more than $400,000 in one year. The new fee programs have […]
[…] charge higher fees and, more important, each park will keep 80 percent of the additional revenues it earns. This change could transform the major parks such as Yellowstone. The “crown jewel” of our national park system has been tarnished by money problems. This spring, the park service delayed the opening of the Beartooth Highway, […]
[…] Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Water Rights: Scarce Resource Allocation, Bureaucracy, and the Environment, edited by Terry L. Anderson. San Francisco: Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research, 1983. The Yellowstone Primer: Land and Resource Management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, edited by JohnBaden and Donald R. Leal. San Francisco: Pacific ResearchInstitute for Public Policy, 1990.
[…] Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Water Rights: Scarce Resource Allocation, Bureaucracy, and the Environment, edited by Terry L. Anderson. San Francisco: Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research, 1983. The Yellowstone Primer: Land and Resource Management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, edited by JohnBaden and Donald R. Leal. San Francisco: Pacific ResearchInstitute for Public Policy, 1990.
[…] Peter J. Hill, Editors Myths about the Old West are challenged by these authors who discuss why there was little economic growth on Western Indian reservations, how Yellowstone National Park really was established (by the railroads), and the subsidized development of water resources. The book illustrates the interplay of economic and political forces on […]
[…] Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Water Rights: Scarce Resource Allocation, Bureaucracy, and the Environment, edited by Terry L. Anderson. San Francisco: Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research, 1983. The Yellowstone Primer: Land and Resource Management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, edited by JohnBaden and Donald R. Leal. San Francisco: Pacific ResearchInstitute for Public Policy, 1990.
[…] Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Water Rights: Scarce Resource Allocation, Bureaucracy, and the Environment, edited by Terry L. Anderson. San Francisco: Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research, 1983. The Yellowstone Primer: Land and Resource Management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, edited by JohnBaden and Donald R. Leal. San Francisco: Pacific ResearchInstitute for Public Policy, 1990.
[…] those that most Americans want. The decision to allow fires to burn in spite of decades’ worth of fuel buildup led to the devastation of much of Yellowstone in the summer of 1988. While environmental leaders endorse these policies because they minimize human intervention, the disappearance of wildlife such as the beaver and the […]