PERC Senior Fellow Nick Parker joined The Curious Task podcast to discuss environmental regulation and his 2024 paper with Dean Lueck entitled “The Economic Origins And Extent Of America’s First Environmental Agencies.”
In the paper, the authors study America’s oldest environmental bureaucracies—U.S. state wildlife agencies—from their inception during America’s age of wildlife extermination to their manifestation as modern administrative agencies.
Dominic (Nick) Parker is a PERC senior fellow and the Anderson-Bascom professor of applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This special issue of PERC Reports explores creative ideas to address the conservation challenges of the Pacific Northwest.
It’s been more than a century since sea otters called the coasts of Oregon and Northern California home. Can they be brought back to the region without alienating fishermen?
Can cultivating a taste for purple sea urchin help restore America's underwater forests?