Shifting responsibility for protecting federal lands back to Congress can reduce conflict while promoting deliberation and compromise.
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The Problem With Environmental Regulation
Why do we take some environmental impacts for granted?
This Hunting Season, Thank a Private Landowner
If we overlook the importance of private landowners in conserving wildlife, we risk jeopardizing what we love.
Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong on Fracking
Like many of her plans, Elizabeth Warren’s anti-drilling, anti-fracking scheme conveniently ignores policy trade-offs, fiscal realities, and even constitutional limits on presidential authority.
Leave Park Operations—and Fee Revenues—to the Parks
Empowering local land managers to spend the revenues they have generated on their greatest needs can help provide the resources to care for our shared lands properly.
The New Endangered-Species Regulations Are Good for Species
The old rules created a perverse incentive not to preserve habitat
Conservationists Should Support Trophy Hunting
Why I joined 132 researchers in signing an open letter in Science Magazine
Endangered Species Act Reforms Improve Incentives for Landowners to Recover Species
Although any change concerning this popular law generates understandable concern, many of these changes will benefit on-the-ground conservation by reducing conflict.
Interior Has Revised Endangered Species Rules—What Happens Now?
How will these changes affect species conservation?
New Endangered Species Policy Will Protect Both Property Rights and Rare Frogs
There’s no need to pit property owners against imperiled species.