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Because incentives matter for conservation.

The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) explores how aligning incentives for environmental stewardship produces sustainable outcomes for land, water, and wildlife.

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How to Save Our National Parks

March 24, 2025

An easy efficiency reform can get the money for overdue maintenance and repairs: Charge foreigners more.

PERC Wildfire Risk Map

February 25, 2025

A new tool helps identify the most opportune places to restore western forests

our focus

Advancing new frontiers

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Healthy Public and Private Lands

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Innovations in Wildlife Management

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Fix America’s Forests

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Sustainable Public Lands and Outdoor Recreation

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Water Conservation Innovation

How we create impact

Research

We explore creative solutions to pressing conservative challenges.

Law & Policy

We advance our ideas through environmental law and policy reform.

Innovation Lab

We develop, prototype, and assess groundbreaking conservation models.

The latest

Brian Yablonski

March 24, 2025

How to Save Our National Parks

An easy efficiency reform can get the money for overdue maintenance and repairs: Charge foreigners more.

March 21, 2025

10 Ideas for the Interior Department

How to accelerate conservation and cut green tape

Tate Watkins

March 17, 2025

When the Government Puts Wolves in Your Backyard

Endangered red wolves became a symbol of federal overreach—and a target for local ire—in eastern North Carolina.

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