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How Environmental Red Tape Inflames Wildfire Risk
While well-intentioned, environmental review requirements prolong much-needed fuel treatments.
Wildfire, Moral Hazard, and Ways to Lessen Risk
A Q&A with PERC Lone Mountain Fellow Judson Boomhower.
CBS Sunday Morning: Protecting National Parks from Too Much Love
PERC CEO Brian Yablonski is interviewed on the popular morning show to discuss increased national park visitation.
New Big-Game Migration Partnership Highlights Incentives for Private Working Lands
Conserving migration corridors will be achieved not by designation or regulation, but through voluntary incentives and market signals that reward landowners for conservation.
The Irony of a Burn Ban
There is some risk to prescribed fires, but that risk must be compared to the risk of not conducting fuel treatments and having the forest burn completely.
Red Tape Prevents Old-Growth Forest Restoration
Ensuring that resources make it to the ground in a timely manner will require policy change.
3 Ways Markets Are Protecting Our Environment
Markets can save the environment. In fact, they’re already doing It.
Fix America’s Forests
A daunting restoration backlog in national Forests fuels the wildfire crisis. With increased funding coming, significant policy and litigation obstacles still stand in the way of forest restoration.
Empowering Good Samaritan Mine Cleanups
Private partners are ready to act, and it’s time policymakers free them to start remediating abandoned mines.