Kat Dwyer, Author at PERC

Conserving Habitat Requires Better Incentives, Not More Regulatory Mandates

The proposed definition of habitat should be followed by a broader effort to reduce counterproductive regulatory mandates.

Pipeline Approval Process Can’t Ignore Property Owners’ Rights

Under a federal statute, FERC approval gives pipeline companies the power to use eminent domain to acquire property or easements for construction.

Markets and Property Rights are Improving the Environment

A podcast on free market environmentalism and its track record around the world.

Environmental Law and Free Market Environmentalism

A podcast on endangered species, property rights, and free market environmentalism.

Our Environmental Paradox

If you care about conservation and recreation, there’s plenty of reason to ask our policymakers to resolve the tension between funding and fossil fuels.

Wildlife Trade and Incentives for Conservation

A podcast on how markets can incentivize conservation.

Conservation is More Than Acquiring Land—It’s Maintaining What We Already Own

Public land advocates of all stripes need to work together to take care of the lands we already own.

Elk in Paradise: Conserving Migratory Wildlife and Working Lands in Montana’s Paradise Valley

This report presents findings from an extensive survey and numerous discussions with landowners, which reveal attitudes toward wildlife and point the way to solutions that can support landowners and wildlife in the valley.