Colorado has a significant opportunity to build on its early leadership, recognizing the positive role private landowners can play in mitigating the wildfire crisis.
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Montana’s Path to Burning Back Better
Fixing America’s Forests will require a variety of tools, but Montana has a substantial opportunity to expand the use of prescribed fire on private lands.
Conservatives Can Lead on Conservation and Climate Solutions
Supporting policies that leverage incentives and partnerships to protect our natural heritage should be a big part of our strategy to address environmental challenges.
Save Endangered Species From Environmental Regulations
Endangered species have it bad enough. We should make sure the laws designed to protect them don’t make things worse.
One Small Step for Native American Water Rights
The Colorado River Indian Tribes have just won a victory—but there are a lot more controls that need to be lifted.
Congress Limits Conservation Easement Write-Offs—That’s Good for Conservation and Taxpayers
The cap on easement deductions is a win for the general taxpayers in an otherwise bloated spending bill.
PERC Reports Winter 2022
This special issue of PERC Reports explores the West’s water crisis and how markets can address today’s shortages.
Pay a Farmer, Save the Colorado?
Agriculture uses the vast majority of water in the arid West. Shouldn’t there be simple ways to trade the valuable resource?
How Federal Laws Undermine Native American Water Rights
Tribes could help bridge gaps between water supply and demand in the Colorado River Basin—if it weren’t for federal restrictions
The Water Beneath the Desert
A groundwater market in the Mojave Desert offers lessons for California and beyond