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Property Rights Are Key to Addressing Pollution
PERC and the Pacific Legal Foundation filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian.
Look to History to Reform the Antiquities Act
Shifting responsibility for protecting federal lands back to Congress can reduce conflict while promoting deliberation and compromise.
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.