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 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.
PERC weighs in on how to improve forest management as part of President Biden's executive order.
Catherine Semcer testifies before the U.S. House on ways to reduce illegal wildlife trade.
PERC weighs in on the U.S. Forest Service's efforts to modernize its rangeland management program.
A podcast on PERC's 8 ideas to reform and restore national forests and tackle the wildfire crisis.
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.
The best way to seriously reduce the human, economic, and environmental devastation is to unleash private partners to perform needed forest restoration.
By reducing regulation and increasing market and partnership opportunities, policymakers have the opportunity to promote restoration for healthy forests that provide public conservation benefits while reducing the risk of megafires.
In Yellowstone, conservation starts with taking care of the people responsible for protecting the park’s resources.
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.
Expanding landowner hunting tag opportunities is one potential tool that would help offset the costs of elk, make them less of a liability, and promote tolerance and habitat conservation.
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.
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.
An attack on conservationists’ rights threaten protections for all of us and to further politicize the environment.
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.
