The Federal Government continues to acquire more land, much of it is donated, but the cost of land maintenance at this scale is immense and the feds do not have the funds to do the job.
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Terry Anderson wins Annual Award from Prague’s Liberálnà Institut
Every year since 1989, the Liberální Institut in Prague presents an internationally known scholar with its Annual Award, recognizing their "contribution to the proliferation of Liberal thinking and making ideas of liberty, private property, competition and the rule of law come true." Terry Anderson has been honored with the Annual Award for 2011. He is recognized forContinue reading “Terry Anderson wins Annual Award from Prague’s Liberálnà Institut”
Will regulation guarantee safe food?
By Paul Schwennesen We all want safe food. Question is, how do we get it? “There oughta be a law,” seems to be the generally conceived approach, as evidenced by recent passage of the now-famous food safety bill. A tidy and altogether comforting solution: simply slay the beast of dangerous food with the bludgeonContinue reading “Will regulation guarantee safe food?”
Romance in the parks
At the annual meeting of the Society for Enviromental Journalists, PERC researcher Holly Fretwell suggested that the national parks would benefit most from earning their own funds from entrance fees rather than depending on politicians to hand over more tax dollars. Meanwhile, the parks continue to deteriorate.
Sharing
By Lexi Feinberg Once an icon of the American west, bison are now hazed through costly government-driven efforts and killed in droves around Yellowstone National Park during the winter. Their crime: migrating outside of the park’s borders onto public and private land in Montana, searching for food. Fueling the slaughters is ranchers’ fear of brucellosis,Continue reading “Sharing”
The waste of recycling
In most cases, recycling is a profligate use of natural and human resources.
Get excited about recycling? Not me
Recyling household trash makes people feel warm and fuzzy, but its not good for the environment.
Talking Green in Yellowstone
Stimulus spending for green jobs is short sighted. The solar panels produced can make electricty for less, but will eventually cost more to replace.
Paul Schwennesen honored in global essay contest
Paul Schwennesen an Enviropreneur-in-Residence at PERC and a former fellow at the Enviropreneur Institute is one of seven top winners in a global easy contest sponsored by the SEVEN Fund in Cambridge, MA.
The topic was the “morality of profit.”
Free market environmentalism: Private sector better at preservation
Free Market Environmentalism is better at managing natural resources than the government. The oil spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico is a recent example.