If landowners have clear rights to rockweed, they’ll have incentive to preserve it.
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Pipelines v. Property Rights
Amid a natural-gas boom aided by fracking, the use of eminent domain to build pipelines has exacerbated conflicts.
When Does Hunting Earn a Trophy?
Responsible hunting can help ensure exotic species are protected from poaching and corruption.
Even If You Don’t Think Hunting Is Pretty, It’s an Effective Conservation Tool
Many may never like hunting, but hopefully we can all agree that it is better than the alternative—losing rare species forever.
The Supreme Court Wrestles Again With the Clean Water Act’s Due Process Deficit
The Clean Water Act forbids the “discharge” of “pollutants” into “navigable waters.” But none of those terms are interpreted as an ordinary person would.
Can the Government Use Tax Foreclosures to Destroy Conservation Easements Without Compensation?
If tax foreclosure could destroy innocent easement owners’ property, conservation easements could be especially vulnerable.
Historic Preservation Laws Lead to Deterioration, so Does Involuntary Conservation
Free market environmentalism treats the environment as an asset, rather than a liability, creating the incentives that make protection and restoration possible.
Give Tribes Real Authority in Bears Ears National Monument
It’s time for Congress to act to provide meaningful co-management of Bears Ears to Native Americans.
Can Federalism’s Flexibility Recover Endangered Species?
The Endangered Species Act creates lots of work for lawyers and bureaucrats, but measured by the criteria it announces as the goal—recovering species—it hasn’t worked.
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Policy Changes Needed
The question of how to manage wildfires is a hot one as fire can be both constructive and destructive.