Bozeman ChronicleDecember 3, 2007
By Terry L. Anderson
Opeds
Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewAugust 19, 2007
By Bill Steigerwald
Seattle Post-IntelligencerApril 11, 2006
By Holly L. Fretwell
Guest Columnist
Providence JournalJanuary 9, 2006
By Donald R. Leal
Colorado Springs GazetteNovember 19, 2005
Free-market environmentalism is a win-win for everyone
By Terry L. Anderson
Headwaters NewsJanuary 5, 2005 By Randy T. Simmons
Billings GazetteSeptember 11, 2004
By Holly L. Fretwell
Tacoma News TribuneJuly 4, 2004
By J. Bishop Grewell
Rocky Mountain NewsJuly 3, 2004
By Terry L. Anderson
Herald and NewsKlamath Falls, ORJune 14, 2004
Water trades work elsewhere:Why not in the Basin?
By Jane S. Shaw
Denver PostColorado VoicesOctober 12, 2003
Squeezing multiple use
By Tim Fitzgerald, Western Colorado
July 12, 2002
By Holly Lippke Fretwell
vThe OregonianJune 25, 2002
Individual Fishing Quotas:Long Overdue
By Donald R. Leal
June 26, 2002
By Linda Platts and Holly Lippke Fretwell
Bozeman Daily ChronicleJune 20, 2000
By J. Bishop GrewellIn the foothills of
By J. Bishop Grewell
Tiny microbes living in the mud-pots and geysers of Yellowstone National Park have
sparked a mammoth controversy.
Apple Daily, Hong KongDecember 13, 1999
By Matthew Brown
Orange County RegisterOctober 12, 1999Fear Bigger Governments,Not Bigger Populations
By Richard L. Stroup and Matthew Brown
vBozeman Daily ChronicleAugust 4, 1999
By Richard Stroup
Orange County RegisterJuly 18, 1999
CLAY LANDRYCopyright 1999 The Orange County Register
Environmental Protection MagazineMarch 1999
Harnessing Markets to Improve
Water Quality:
Using a free-market approach can save
Tacoma News TribuneAugust 13, 1998
By Matthew Brown and Jane S. Shaw
Rocky Mountain NewsJune 7, 1998
By Terry L. Anderson
The Orange County RegisterFebruary 16, 1998
By Terry L. Anderson
Wall Street JournalAugust 26,1997
By Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal
Sacramento BeeAugust 5, 1997
Forest Service Roads Opened form Recreation Would Defray Costs
By Donald R. Leal
Wall Street JournalJanuary 28, 1997
By Holly Lippke Fretwell and Linda Platts
Wall Street JournalSeptember 4, 1996
By Michael Sanera and Jane S. Shaw
Chicago TribuneSeptember 3, 1996
By Terry L. Anderson and Mark Liffman
Savannah Morning NewsMay 19, 1996
Georgia's Groundwater: Own It or Lose It
By Terry L. Andersonand Pamela S. Snyder
Christian Science MonitorMarch 20, 1996
By Urs P. Kreuter and Linda E. Platts
Rocky Mountain NewsDecember 20, 1995
By Terry L. Anderson and Michael R. Houser
Wall Street JournalNov. 22, 1995
By Terry L. Anderson
Wall Street JournalSeptember 7, 1995
By Pamela S. Snyder and Jane S. Shaw
By Terry L. Anderson
[See research by Terry Anderson
and Dominic Parker]
Obama's Great Outdoor Initiative is not a bottom-up approach, but once again a top-down effort that will create more government programs and reduce local control.
California is criminalizing recreational behavior in the state parks, writing tickets for the likes of rafting wihtout a life jacket and a dip without a suit. The fines they collect help fill the state coffers.
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.
Stimulus spending for green jobs is short sighted. The solar panels produced can make electricty for less, but will eventually cost more to replace.
In most cases, recycling is a profligate use of natural and human resources.
Recyling household trash makes people feel warm and fuzzy, but its not good for the environment.
Federal Land management has largely led to poor stewardship. Permanenty funding the Land and Water Conservation Act to provide $900 miilion annually for more land purchases is a bad decison. The feds should focus on managing the 25 pecent of the US that they already own.
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.
China's growing wealth and economic power means it also vested in seeing the US propser as it holds a huge amount of US debt and remains an important trading partner.
PERC's Roger Meiners writes that calls for massive changes in all aspects of modern life from transportation to food production in
order to reduce carbon emissions are unrealistic. Repeated failures of such utopian experiments suggests extreme caution.
As our quality of life continues to improve, the world's prevailing sentiment continues to be one of a disastrous future, all because the population has reached 7 billion. Are these worries real or just a scare tactic?
Endangered African wildlife are conserved on Texas ranches that have switched from money-losing livestock to profitable rare and endangered species.
The uncertainties of tribal governance and judicial systems has a chilling effect on economic development on reservations. A point in case is the Grand Canyon Skywalk.
New Forest Service policy calls for more sustainability even for communities and recreation. Trying to make everything sustainable simply makes no sense.
US Congress passes legislation opposing catch share fisheries one of the most promising management schemes for protecting fisheries and marine habitat
PERC fellows offer "candidate species conservation banking" as a promising development of voluntary exchange through a market-like approach in their San Jose Mercury News op-ed.
With private investment in green energy down 34 percent between 2011 and 2012, proponents of subsidies for R&D struggle to make their case.
Private ownership is the key to good resource stewardship. As Terry Anderson explains, stream access laws undermine property rights and reduce landowners' incentives to provide habitat for fish and wildlife.
Facing the "fiscal cliff," perhaps the president and Congress should start thinking in terms of the "foreclosure crisis." All lenders, whether a local home-loan bank or the Chinese government, expect to be repaid either from the borrower's income or, if that is insufficient, from the sale of assets. Where does that leave the U.S. government?
From the World Resources Institutes initiative for Keeping Options Alive to the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity, calls for conserving biodiversity are persistent. This goal appears reasonable, at least on its face.
Saturday night marks the end of daylight-saving time for 2012. Time for those clocks to "fall back" an hour to standard time, when the sun really is highest at high noon.
Thursday marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act. No doubt, the billions spent on the act have improved overall water quality.
Terry Anderson of PERC supports the Green Tea Party in 2012 and its preseidential candidate Kermit the Frog. Kermit promises environmental quality with limited government and budget cuts.
Watch PERC's "Saving Ocean Fisheries with Catch Shares"By Preston Mixon and Donald R. Leal Special to The Daily News
Environmental, fiscal and economic irresponsibility in the name of protection.
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