RS-02-2: 2002 By Jody Lipford, Jerry Slice, and Bruce Yandle About the Authors About PERC Research Studies Executive Summary In 1997, the state of South Carolina acquired from Duke Energy Corporation 33,000 acres of undeveloped land known as the Jocassee Gorges. The $54 million property is part of the Blue Ridge Escarpment in the southern AppalachianContinue reading “South Carolina’s Jocassee Gorges –”
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Environmental Counterblaze Distorts a Government Report
July 12, 2002 By Holly Lippke Fretwell BOZEMAN, Mont. – As cool, moist air at last reaches the Rocky Mountain West, some of the largest fires in Colorado and Arizona history are finally fading. Remaining fresh in our minds, however, are the bitter debates over the causes of those fires. By misusing a government report,Continue reading “Environmental Counterblaze Distorts a Government Report”
Individual Fishing Quotas:
Last week, the Pacific Fisheries Management Council announced it will prohibit fishing in major sectors of the groundfish fishery along the Pacific Coast. Donald Leal explains how individual fishing quotas (IFQs) can solve the overfishing dilemma.
Trading in Trash
If congressional efforts to curtail interstate trash disposal succeed, costs will go up.
Banking on Organics
When executive David C. Cole left high-flying AOL, he was a millionaire many times over. He bought a family farm in Virginia and settled in, but with no intention of retiring as a country gentleman. Instead, he saw an opportunity to propel the organic foods market into the mainstream, and eventually add to his fortune.Continue reading “Banking on Organics”
Golfing Gone Wild
Golf courses, once considered wicked over-watered stews of pesticides, fertilizers, and alien plant life, have gained new luster with the environmental community. As homes and businesses continue to spread across the landscape, golf courses are often providing the open spaces that communities crave. Increasingly, these open spaces are offering up wildflowers, native plants, bluebirds, turtles,Continue reading “Golfing Gone Wild”
Salted Irrigation
Salt deposits can destroy farm land, but at long last, one scientist has found a crop that will tolerate irrigation by sea water.
Fencing the Fishery
How rights-based fishing policies can reduce the costly and destructive race to fish.
Why is the West Always Burning Down?
June 26, 2002 By Linda Platts and Holly Lippke Fretwell BOZEMAN, Mont. – A journalist from an eastern newspaper called our offices in Bozeman, Montana, last week to ask “Why is the West always burning down?” For those of us who live here, it is an exasperating question because we already know the answer. TheContinue reading “Why is the West Always Burning Down?”
Community Forestry in India and Nepal
After years of national control, governments allow local people to share the resource.