Montana needs new, collaborative solutions that address the needs of landowners while enhancing wildlife conservation.
Author Archives: Kat Dwyer
Transferable Hunting Permit Programs Can Be a Vital Tool for Conservation
PERC’s latest policy brief reviews several different state transferable hunting tag programs and identifies how best to craft a program that promotes wildlife habitat conservation.
Conserving Wildlife Habitat with Landowner Hunting Permits
Lessons from western states to enhance voluntary conservation on private lands.
Do Environmental Markets Improve on Open Access? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights
Abstract Environmental markets are widely prescribed as an alternative to open access regimes for natural resources. We develop a model of dynamic groundwater extraction to demonstrate how a spatial regression discontinuity design that exploits a spatially incomplete market for groundwater rights recovers a lower bound on the market’s net benefit. We apply this estimator toContinue reading “Do Environmental Markets Improve on Open Access? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights”
Efficiency Implications of Trading in a Bifurcated Market
An analysis of the frequency of trading and the causes of price dispersion for short-term water leases in the Edwards Aquifer in Texas.
Private Conservation Efforts Offer Answers to Our Environmental Challenges
A podcast discussing environmental policy under the Biden administration.
Markets Can Provide More Sustainable Conservation
A podcast on free market environmentalism and how it’s being applied today.
Yearly Catastrophic Wildfires Don’t Need to Be the New Normal
A podcast on the wildfire crisis and how to mitigate it going forward.
Public Comment on the Revision of a Nonessential Experimental Population of Black-footed Ferrets in the Southwest
PERC weighs in on the Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposed rule revision.
Public Comment on Proposed 4(d) Rule for the Lesser Prairie-Chicken
PERC weighs in on how to improve endangered species recovery.