PERC’s Jonathan Wood spoke with Cat Daily Podcast host Caleb Brown to discuss the Endangered Species Act’s achievements and failures in protecting and recovering species. For decades the Endangered Species Act has done a good job of preventing listed species from going extinct; however, the ESA has failed to fully recover many of those species. Changes to the law to help align private landowners incentives with these recovery goals may be the answer.
Cato Daily Podcast: How the Endangered Species Act Works (and Doesn’t)
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Jonathan Wood
- Vice President of Law & Policy
Jonathan Wood is vice president of law and policy at PERC, leading PERC’s Conservation Law and Policy Center.
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Restoring Rivers Requires Cooperation, not Litigation Shortcuts
An amicus brief in a case before the California Supreme Court case on restoring flows to California’s rivers
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New Report: Proactive Forest Management Delivers Up to 6x Savings and Billions in Avoided Losses
Peer-reviewed research published in Science underscores economic and ecological case for fuel treatments
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Beyond Wildfire Suppression
The economic case for fuel treatments on national forests
