Preserving what the ESA does well (preventing extinctions) while improving it as a tool to recover species is an essential and achievable goal.
Author Archives: Kat Dwyer
Protecting Our Nation’s Most Cherished Forests Through Active Forest Management
The destruction of sequoias in recent years must serve as a wake-up call to the need to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires.
A Voice for Rural America: Promoting Species Recovery
A podcast about policy reforms that could incentivize greater endangered species recovery.
Using Markets to Limit Eagle Mortality from Wind Power
How a market in tradable permits can motivate the wind energy sector to conserve eagles
Fight Fire With Fire
What Florida gets right about using controlled burns to prevent damaging wildfires, and what California could learn from it.
Financing Outdoor Recreation
This special issue of the journal Land Economics is the result of a 2019 workshop hosted by PERC that explored a range of outdoor recreation issues with a specific focus on funding.
Financing Outdoor Recreation
This special issue of the journal Land Economics is the result of a 2019 workshop hosted by PERC that explored a range of outdoor recreation issues with a specific focus on funding.
Testimony Before the U.S. House on America’s Wildfire Crisis
If Congress can work with the Forest Service to make reforms that promote collaboration instead of conflict and increase partnership opportunities, forest managers can make true progress to fix America’s forests.
Federal Bureaucracy Hinders Projects that Can Reduce Wildfire Risk
While the review process is meant to protect the environment, in the case of forest management, it hinders important restoration work and can do more harm than good.
Research Shows the Importance of Private Lands
A growing body of research shows just how important private landowners are to the success of wildlife conservation efforts worldwide, including the 30 by 30 initiative.