The home of free market environmentalism
This report recommends actionable reforms that can help the Forest Service work better with states, tribes, and private partners to fix America’s forests.
A clean-energy future will require more than just spending money.
A podcast on the opportunity markets present to manage federal lands in a way that imposes fewer costs on the people who live near them.
As a starting point, the preliminary principles of the America the Beautiful campaign focus on collaboration, voluntary efforts, incentives, local leadership, and honoring property rights.
Nudging people to dismiss risk by making it cheaper and easier for them to live in fire-prone areas helps no one.
The initial principles put forward by the Biden administration offer the opportunity to promote market-based environmentalism.
Engaging and diminishing the risk will require changes in how we govern and manage our forests.
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.
If the delays stemming from litigation can be reduced, the Forest Service can more easily do its job, stewarding resources we all use and enjoy.
A podcast on the market's role in fostering healthy forests.
Brian Yablonski testifies before the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Forum on the 30 by 30 Initiative.
Catherine Semcer testifies before the U.S. House on ways to reduce illegal wildlife trade.
Efforts like the 30 by 30 initiative have the best chance of delivering the kind of conservation America needs when the government engages with the private sector as an equal partner.
A podcast on the role of markets in producing good environmental outcomes.
Scaling back federal regulation over isolated wetlands reduces conflict between regulators and private landowners, aligning economic incentives with voluntary conservation objectives.
By recognizing water conservation as a beneficial use, Utah can promote cooperation that can help restore the Great Salt Lake.
The federal Clean Water Act is a notoriously complex statute, imposing federal permitting on a wide variety of land uses, industrial activity, and conservation projects based on turbid regulatory standards.
Brian Yablonski testifies before the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Forum on the 30 by 30 Initiative.
But there is no reason for believers in individual liberty, property rights, and free markets to abandon the defense of those values when a conservation group’s rights are at stake.
Efforts like the 30 by 30 initiative have the best chance of delivering the kind of conservation America needs when the government engages with the private sector as an equal partner.
Banning trophy hunting without viable alternatives would imperil biodiversity and undermine local communities.
It’s incredibly important that we actively support hunting and angling not only because they’re a part of Montana’s identity, but because our wild places need the resources.
Catherine Semcer testifies before the U.S. Senate on the importance of habitat conservation in preventing disease transmission from wildlife to humans.
Markets can overcome the technological challenge by giving fishers and others the incentive to develop new ways to reduce bycatch.
A podcast on free market environmentalism and its track record around the world.
Markets and property rights are working to solve a variety of environmental problems.
