In 1872, decades before there was a National Park Service, entrepreneur Jay Cooke saw the opportunity to set Yellowstone aside as a tourist attraction. Terry Anderson tells Cooke’s story, shares the history of the parks, and offers solutions to the National Park Service’s $12 billion deferred maintenance backlog.
Jay Cooke, Yellowstone & Profits
Written By
-
Terry AndersonTerry L. Anderson is the former president and executive director of PERC, and the John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Date
Topics
Related Content
-
PRESERVED, Documentary on Ted Turner’s Vermejo Conservation Legacy, Makes Bozeman Premiere August 28
The event includes a film screening and panel discussion, with VIP reception available.
-
Public Comment: Grazing Rules Should Reward Stewardship, Not Second-Guess Who’s Allowed to Graze
What the Bureau of Land Management's new proposal gets right and one place it falls short
-
Landscapes, not Lecterns: A Senate Tour of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
PERC and the Boone and Crockett Club host U.S. senators for a firsthand look at collaborative conservation
