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  • Drew Bennett Travis Brammer Jerod Merkle Kurt Smith Shawn Regan Temple Stoellinger Arthur Middleton Kristin Barker Jacob Hochard Patrick Lendrum Erin Welty Craig Benjamin Brian Yablonski

    Advancing Conservation Through Virtual Livestock Fencing

    An academic paper exploring virtual fencing technology’s potential to facilitate conservation.

  • Kat Dwyer

    Conservation Partners Launch Yellowstone Ecosystem Virtual Fence Collaborative

    Ricketts Conservation Foundation and PERC are investing $600,000 to deploy transformative technology across one of North America’s most iconic ecosystems

  • It’s Time to Make the Endangered Species Act Work Better for Recovery

    PERC testifies before the Senate on pragmatic solutions to boost species recovery under the ESA.

  • Kat Dwyer

    New PERC Report: Transferable Tax Credits Expand Participation in Conservation Easements

    Research shows market-based reforms make conservation easements more accessible for farmers and ranchers while protecting higher-value lands.

  • Annalise Helm Dominic Parker Garrett Shost

    Trading Green

    How transferable tax credits supercharge conservation easements

  • Jonathan Wood

    The Endangered Species Act Regulatory Reform Pendulum Swings Again—Possibly For the Final Time

    If the courts and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can agree, then the regulatory pendulum might finally come to a stop.

  • Temple Stoellinger Kelly Dunning David Willms Arthur Middleton Bethany Aragon

    Predators and Precedents: Grizzly Bears, Joe Pickett, and the Law of Delisting

    This academic paper examines how popular culture, legal frameworks, and conservation science intersect to shape wildlife policy.

  • Jonathan Wood

    Don’t Let Federal Agencies Revoke Permits Without Consequence

    For American Prairie and other western ranchers, permit certainty would mean that decades-old grazing privileges on federal land would be honored as valid property rights.

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