Using Markets to Limit Eagle Mortality from Wind Power
Molly Espey, Eamon EspeyHow a market in tradable permits can motivate the wind energy sector to conserve eagles
PERC Reports: Summer 2022
Shawn ReganThis special issue of PERC Reports explores the thorny issues of forest management, wildfire mitigation, and regulatory reform.
The Role of Private Lands in Conserving Yellowstone’s Wildlife in the Twenty-First Century
Arthur Middleton, Temple Stoellinger, Drew Bennett, Travis Brammer, Laura Gigliotti, Hilary Byerly Flint, Samantha M Maher, Bryan LeonardThis paper identifies the necessary conditions for a successful expansion of private-lands conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
The Case for Tradeable Permits in Dead Birds
Tate WatkinsA push toward wind energy threatens to kill more eagles. Markets can help.
How Environmental Activists and Reviews Can Worsen Wildfires
Jonathan WoodAn undergrowth of red tape and litigation stands in the way of the Biden administration’s 10-year forest-management plan.
Testimony on Endangered Species Act Reform
Jonathan WoodPreserving what the ESA does well (preventing extinctions) while improving it as a tool to recover species is an essential and achievable goal.
Protecting Our Nation’s Most Cherished Forests Through Active Forest Management
Hannah DowneyThe destruction of sequoias in recent years must serve as a wake-up call to the need to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires
A Voice for Rural America: Promoting Species Recovery
Brian YablonskiA podcast about policy reforms that could incentivize greater endangered species recovery.
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
Fight Fire With Fire
What Florida gets right about using controlled burns to prevent damaging wildfires, and what California could learn from it.
Financing Outdoor Recreation
This special issue of the journal Land Economics is the result of a 2019 workshop hosted by PERC that explored a range of outdoor recreation issues with a specific focus on funding.
Testimony Before the U.S. House on America’s Wildfire Crisis
If Congress can work with the Forest Service to make reforms that promote collaboration instead of conflict and increase partnership opportunities, forest managers can make true progress to fix America’s forests.
Wildlife
Research Shows the Importance of Private Lands
A growing body of research shows just how important private landowners are to the success of wildlife conservation efforts worldwide, including the 30 by 30 initiative.
Federal Court Strikes Down ESA Rules by Fiat
The decision is a huge blow to conservation and the rule of law.
New Big-Game Migration Partnership Highlights Incentives for Private Working Lands
Conserving migration corridors will be achieved not by designation or regulation, but through voluntary incentives and market signals that reward landowners for conservation.
Water
Running Dry in the American West
One way or another, people there will need to use less water.
3 Ways Markets Are Protecting Our Environment
Markets can save the environment. In fact, they’re already doing It.
A Broad Interpretation of WOTUS Undermines Wetland Conservation
PERC filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Private Lands
Research Shows the Importance of Private Lands
A growing body of research shows just how important private landowners are to the success of wildlife conservation efforts worldwide, including the 30 by 30 initiative.
New Big-Game Migration Partnership Highlights Incentives for Private Working Lands
Conserving migration corridors will be achieved not by designation or regulation, but through voluntary incentives and market signals that reward landowners for conservation.
Mountain & Prairie Podcast: Action-Oriented Conservationist
A podcast about PERC's unique approach to conservation and how markets can help address western conservation issues.
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
The Distributional Outcomes of Rights-Based Management in Fisheries
This paper provides a fishery-wide accounting of returns to these diverse stakeholder groups at the vessel level.
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.
Publications
Using Markets to Limit Eagle Mortality from Wind Power
Volume 41, No.1, Summer 2022
Does Environmental Review Worsen the Wildfire Crisis?
Volume 40, No.2, Winter 2021
Addressing Institutional Barriers to Native American Water Marketing
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
