Ecological abundance. That’s not a pairing of words you hear too often these days. It’s more common to hear of ecological distress. However, both opportunities and problems associated with great ecological abundance may be seen in Montana’s Madison Valley. Lying just northwest of Yellowstone National Park, the Madison presents an eyeful. Vast herds of elk,Continue reading “Living in the new wild west”
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Seagrass Credits For Sale
Enjoyment of the environment is intimately related to healthy water quality conditions for swimming, fishing, and recreation. And at the heart of it all is seagrass.
Habitat Credit Trading
The “currency” involved in the habit trading system is habitat credits.
Preserving Patagonian Grasslands and Gauchos
Like the rugged cowboy roaming the plains of the American Wild West, the image of the untamable gaucho is embroidered into the fabric of the Argentine consciousness.
Farming for Fish
The Entiat Valley Habitat Farming Enterprise Program is a vehicle to create successful transactions between willing sellers of riparian habitat and those willing to pay for restoration of fish, improved wildlife habitat, and clean water.
One Step Closer to Superfund Sanity
The federal Superfund program was enacted in 1980 to speed the cleanup of abandoned hazardous waste sites and hold polluting companies responsible. It was supposed to be “shovels first, lawyers later.” Instead, lawsuits proliferated and cleanups stalled. Though premised on the “polluter pays” principle, Superfund often caused polluter and non-polluter alike to overpay for minimalContinue reading “One Step Closer to Superfund Sanity”
Bogus Bidder: One Year Later
Edward Abbey is known for his unorthodox approach to protecting the wilderness of the American southwest. His 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang depicted a gang of misfits that employed the use of sabotage – or “monkey wrenching” – to protest the development of dams, roads, and power lines throughout the West. The vigilante group’sContinue reading “Bogus Bidder: One Year Later”
Much Ado about Pigou
By Bruce Yandle Clemson University Economists, policy analysts, and politicians often rattle the bones of brilliant economists long passed when making a case for a favorite policy or legislative action. John Maynard Keynes has again become a popular icon for justifying deficit spending in the face of severe recession. There are other days when JosephContinue reading “Much Ado about Pigou”
National TV Broadcasting and the rise of the regulatory state
The rise of national markets associated with national TV networks led to the expansion of federal social regulation and a simultaneous decline of federal economic regulation.
Grassfed Beef and the Politics of “Local”
“Local,” they say, “never goes out of season.”