PERC Reports: Summer 2022
Shawn ReganThis special issue of PERC Reports explores the thorny issues of forest management, wildfire mitigation, and regulatory reform.
The home of free market environmentalism
This special issue of PERC Reports explores the thorny issues of forest management, wildfire mitigation, and regulatory reform.
How environmental analysis delays fuel treatment projects
The National Park Service should look to superintendents on the ground and provide the flexibility to continue experimenting in all aspects of operation.
An unprecedented agreement grants five tribes authority to co-manage Bears Ears National Monument.
A century of fire suppression has altered the state of our forests.
The U.S. Forest Service plans to increase the pace of forest restoration by 50 million acres over the next decade. Success, however, depends on partnering with states, tribes, and the private sector and tackling persistent policy obstacles.
Many public forests in need of restoration are overgrown with small timber. These resources hold tremendous value—if innovative markets can put them to use.
Through Good Neighbor Authority, federal agencies are working with states and other western partners to mitigate wildfire risk.
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.
How a renewed focus on prescribed fire can help forests from coast to coast.
Decades of fire suppression fuel catastrophic wildfires today.
While well-intentioned, environmental review requirements prolong much-needed fuel treatments.
Conserving migration corridors will be achieved not by designation or regulation, but through voluntary incentives and market signals that reward landowners for conservation.
The conservation of intact, healthy ecosystems is the first line of defense against the spillover of zoonotic diseases.
A podcast about PERC's unique approach to conservation and how markets can help address western conservation issues.
Markets can save the environment. In fact, they’re already doing It.
PERC filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Tribal nations deserve to manage their water rights as they so choose.
Conserving migration corridors will be achieved not by designation or regulation, but through voluntary incentives and market signals that reward landowners for conservation.
A podcast about PERC's unique approach to conservation and how markets can help address western conservation issues.
Freakonomics Radio: Research from PERC fellows shows a general economic benefit to the presence of wolves, but complexities abound.
A Roadmap for the State
Entrepreneurs are finding creative ways to give hunters access to private land while respecting property rights.
Montana needs new, collaborative solutions that address the needs of landowners while enhancing wildlife conservation.
This paper provides a fishery-wide accounting of returns to these diverse stakeholder groups at the vessel level.
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.