Property rights are a tried-and-true method of incentivizing responsible resource use. If rockweed is private property, the owners will have strong incentives to protect it.
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National Monument Alternatives: Innovative Strategies to Protect Public Lands
It’s time to get serious—and seriously creative—about how we protect federal lands.
Feds Should Stop Digging a Budget Hole and Quit the Land Grabs
When it comes to our treasured public lands, we’ve dug ourselves into a financial hole.
Can Markets Handle Invasive Species?
Markets are great at solving the problems of allocating resources for useful things like bread, cars, and iPhones. But what about lionfish?
Zinke Rides In
But will the new interior secretary take on the federal-lands bureaucracy?
It’s Time to Modernize the Antiquities Act
The act runs roughshod over the legislative process that is at the core of American governance, which seeks to promote compromise and coalition-building.
PERC’s Public Comment on Bears Ears National Monument
Here’s our public comment to the U.S. Department of the Interior on the review of Bears Ears National Monument established under the Antiquities Act of 1906.
Free Market Environmentalism for the Birds
How California rice farmers went from air polluters to migratory-bird conservationists.
Give Bears Ears To Native Americans
If tribes are going to get more say in protecting sacred sites, like Bears Ears, they will have to have a greater role than consultation.
Save Fish, Establish Property Rights
Where property rights have been made clear, secure, and transferable, overfishing has been reduced.