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  • Kat Dwyer

    New Report Outlines Market-Based Reforms for Montana’s Water Future

    As drought, growth, and competing demands strain Montana’s water supplies, PERC offers practical reforms to strengthen water rights, expand voluntary water trading, and modernize water management

  • Conner Harwood

    Modernizing Montana Water Policy

    A practical reform agenda for unlocking Montana’s water markets

  • Frederik Strabo Sara Sutherland

    The Roadless Rule and Wildfire Management

    More targeted policy could better balance costs and benefits across different landscapes

  • McLean Albritton

    Bipartisan Wildfire Emissions Prevention Act (WEPA) Advances in Senate

    The bipartisan legislation would address a core contradiction in how the Clean Air Act (CAA) regulates wildfire emissions.

  • Sophie Gilbert Danielle Bissett Tim Male

    Fast Conservation

    Nature recovery can be fast, if we let it

  • Brian Yablonski

    A Once-in-a-Generation Leader: PERC Statement on Cam Sholly’s Retirement

    A statement from PERC CEO Brian Yablonski

  • PERC Interns: In Their Own Words

    This summer, PERC hosted six remarkable interns at our headquarters in Bozeman, Montana.

  • Conservation Takes the Main Stage at Wildlands

    Inside PERC’s weekend as lead conservation beneficiary at the Sixth Annual Wildlands

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