By Terry L. Anderson [See research by Terry Anderson and Dominic Parker] Ken Salazar, the new secretary of the Interior, faces the same tough questions as his predecessors: Drill more or drill less? Graze more or graze less? Mine more or mine less? More snowmobiling in national parks, or less? But for an administration committedContinue reading “Native Americans Need the Rule of Law”
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Whiskey market all bloom, no gloom
While the economy sputters and stalls, whiskey makers are on cruise control.
Saving sashimi
The oily red flesh of southern bluefin tuna makes the finest sashimi on the planet.
Mentioning the unmentionable
Admittedly, most people don’t leap at the chance to read about human waste. But sometimes we must.
Superfund Follies, Part II
Since 1980, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has had the authority to clean up hazardous waste sites that pose an imminent and substantial danger to public welfare and the environment.
Former State Senator Sees Rivers as a Magnet
Doug Barclay vividly remembers a fall day in the early 1980s when he said upwards of 3,000 people were on his New York property along the lower Salmon River
In the Eye of the Wildlife Storm
Most conflicts solved with market-based solutions involve opposing sides exercising their property interest, whether factual or imagined.
Beyond Its Authority
The St. Paul Port Authority is pursuing a scheme that could gut Minnesota’s popular 2006 comprehensive eminent domain reforms that protect homes, small businesses, and farms from government takings for private gain.
Reader Survey
What’s your opinion on stream access? In the West, private landowners often provide much of the natural resource management at their own expense, which in turn benefits the public with healthy fisheries and prolific game.
War Zone – Wildlife and Water
When the battles over water in Oregon’s Klamath River Basin were at their peak, PERC organized a meeting in Portland to bring competing parties to the table in search of common ground for reducing the conflict.