Too often, strict liability deters people from taking steps to improve environmental outcomes.
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Protecting Wild Horses Will Take a Wild Idea
Incentive payments to promote wild horse and burro adoptions will benefit the animals, our rangelands, and taxpayers.
Will Environmental Regulations Become More Common as Wildfires Worsen?
Environmentalists have something to gain from reducing unnecessary permit burdens.
Property Rights Are the Key to Conserving Maine’s Rockweed
In a win for conservation and property rights, Maine’s supreme court decides that rockweed cannot be harvested without owner consent.
Property Rights Are For Everyone—Even American Prairie Reserve
To attack APR’s property rights — or to use state resources to formally rebuke the good-faith efforts of a law-abiding conservation organization — is to undermine the property rights of everyone.
Why Congress, Not the President, Should Lead on Environmental Protection
When Congress makes environmental decisions the outcome will likely reflect more consensus and compromise than when the executive branch decides.
Markets for Clean Water
Markets to address stream quality issues should include water quality trading.
What Makes Conservation “Collaborative”?
Incentives and voluntary cooperation are a win-win for the greater sage grouse.
Bureaucratic Overhead: What Share of Species’ Funding Should Go to Red Tape?
An alternative idea on how to best spend money to conserve endangered species.
Use It or Lose It
Sometimes, productive use of land is beneficial for conservation.