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PERC offers three distinct fellowship programs. Applications are open now through February 18.
PERC Reports: “Yellowstone” Winter 2021
This special edition of PERC Reports uses "Yellowstone's" portrayals of the Rocky Mountain West to examine real-world western issues.
Tending National Parks: What would you pay?
Watch PERC's latest short film that explores how user fees can empower park visitors to directly contribute to the care and maintenance of our national parks.
The Distributional Outcomes of Rights-Based Management in Fisheries
Bryan Leonard, Josh Abbott, Brian Garber-YontsThis paper provides a fishery-wide accounting of returns to these diverse stakeholder groups at the vessel level.
Managing Forest Litigation
Hannah DowneyReforming litigation will improve the ability to effectively put resources to work in our forests.
PERC Expands Leadership Team to Advance Creative Conservation
Kat DwyerThe new leaders will help PERC realize its five-year vision to conserve land, water, and wildlife through incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
High West Meets American Prairie
Laura Huggins, Jennifer MoralesThe collaboration between High West and APR provides an example of an innovative partnership that leverages shared values and culture to benefit both organizations and help preserve an at-risk ecosystem.
A Note From “Yellowstone” Star Luke Grimes
My experience at PERC was unique and thought provoking, and it’s clear they back up their work with substance over stereotypes.
About PERC
Founded in 1980 in Bozeman, Montana, PERC—the Property and Environment Research Center—is the home of free market environmentalism. Our research is dedicated to harnessing the power of markets and property rights to improve environmental quality.
Research Areas
Public Lands
PERC Reports: Winter 2021
This special edition of PERC Reports brings together researchers, practitioners, and policy experts—and even some “Yellowstone” cast members—to better understand the issues of the Rocky Mountain West.
The ‘Yellowstone’ We Know
Art imitating life, and life imitating art
Good Neighbor Authority
Continuing Good Neighbor Authority as a tool for forest management will help conserve Montana’s forests and reduce the costs Montanans bear each fire season.
Wildlife
PERC Film Elk in Paradise Wins Prestigious Award
PERC’s short film Elk in Paradise: Rancher, Ecologist, Hunter has won the Atlas Network’s Lights, Camera, Liberty Film Festival Award!
Public Comment on the Rescission of “Habitat” Definition
Repealing the current habitat definition would not only exacerbate conflict but also distract from better methods to promote habitat restoration.
Public Comment on the Proposed Recession of the Exclusion Rule
Critical habitat designations can make habitat features a significant liability for private landowners.
Water
PERC Reports: Winter 2021
This special edition of PERC Reports brings together researchers, practitioners, and policy experts—and even some “Yellowstone” cast members—to better understand the issues of the Rocky Mountain West.
Our Land, Our River?
Property rights to water in the American West
Whose River Runs Through It?
How stream access laws affect recreation and conservation
Private Lands
PERC Film Elk in Paradise Wins Prestigious Award
PERC’s short film Elk in Paradise: Rancher, Ecologist, Hunter has won the Atlas Network’s Lights, Camera, Liberty Film Festival Award!
Public Comment on the Rescission of “Habitat” Definition
Repealing the current habitat definition would not only exacerbate conflict but also distract from better methods to promote habitat restoration.
Public Comment on the Proposed Recession of the Exclusion Rule
Critical habitat designations can make habitat features a significant liability for private landowners.
Hunters and Anglers
Transferable Landowner Hunting Permits in Montana
A Roadmap for the State
A Market Solution for Hunting Access
Entrepreneurs are finding creative ways to give hunters access to private land while respecting property rights.
Transferable Landowner Hunting Tags Have Potential
Montana needs new, collaborative solutions that address the needs of landowners while enhancing wildlife conservation.
Fisheries
Markets, Not Ill-Fitting Regulatory Mandates, Are the Solution to Bycatch
Markets can overcome the technological challenge by giving fishers and others the incentive to develop new ways to reduce bycatch.
Markets and Property Rights are Improving the Environment
A podcast on free market environmentalism and its track record around the world.
A Different Shade of Green
Markets and property rights are working to solve a variety of environmental problems.
Publications
Volume 40, No.2, Winter 2021
Conserving Wildlife Habitat with Landowner Hunting Permits
Volume 40, No.1, Summer 2021
Fix America's Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis
A Better Way to Fund Conservation and Recreation
Enhancing the Public Lands Recreation Fee System
Fixing National Park Maintenance For the Long Haul
Prospecting for Pollution: The Need for Better Incentives to Clean Up Abandoned Mines
Volume 38, No.1, Summer 2019
The Road to Recovery
Volume 37, No.1, Summer 2018
