PERC urges the Department of Agriculture and the Forest Service to revise its grazing program to give permittees more flexibility and to facilitate markets for voluntary conservation on federal lands.
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Conservation Law & Policy Center: We don’t impose conservation, we empower conservation.
PERC’s Conservation Law and Policy Center brings a refreshing new perspective to environmental policy reform, addressing conservation challenges through cooperation, market solutions, and incentives.
Meet the Leaders of PERC’s Conservation Law & Policy Center
A conversation with the leaders of PERC’s new Conservation Law and Policy Center.
PERC Launches New Conservation Law & Policy Center
The Conservation Law and Policy Center links PERC’s research with legal and policy reforms that address conservation challenges through cooperation, market solutions, and incentives.
Opening the Range: Reforms to Allow Markets for Voluntary Conservation on Federal Grazing Lands
“Use it or lose it” requirements can exacerbate conflict by giving ranchers and conservation interests no alternative to political, legal, or administrative conflict.
Opening the Range: Reforms to Allow Markets for Voluntary Conservation on Federal Grazing Lands
“Use it or lose it” requirements can exacerbate conflict by giving ranchers and conservation interests no alternative to political, legal, or administrative conflict.
Can We Save the Diminishing Colorado River?
Lessons from the past may help to improve the situation and make scarcity a prelude to plenty.
Without Reforms to the Environmental Review Process, Wildfires Will Grow Worse
Exhaustive environmental reviews and litigious environmental activists delay, and sometimes prevent, urgently needed forest restoration projects.
Public Comment on Mining Regulations, Laws, and Permitting
Private organizations have the potential to help in cleaning up existing mines and identifying areas where conservation is valued over mining through market bidding.
A Judicial Threat to Conservation
The recent nullification of environmental regulations by a federal court sets a dangerous precedent.