As part of PERC’s Lone Mountain Forum, “Reconciling Economics and Ecology,” Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo discuss their new book The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mysteries of Easter Island. The bottom line: local problems call for local solutions.
The Statues that Walked
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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.
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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.
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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.