New Mexico rewards landowners who conserve elk habitat in the public interest.
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Development Derailed: Railroad Land Grants and Irrigation in the Western United States
An analysis of how uncertain property rights – exogenously generated by railroad land grants – stymied irrigation investment and economic development on the Western frontier.
Legal and Institutional Barriers to Establishing Non-Use Rights to Natural Resources
If rights can only be established once a resource is used, then the institutions that govern natural resources will be unable to resolve conflicting use and non-use demands.
The Road to Recovery
How restoring the Endangered Species Act’s two-step process can prevent extinction and promote recovery.
State-Owned Lands in the Eastern United States: Lessons from State Land Management in Practice
Eastern states demonstrate innovative state land policies that provide lessons for federal land management.
How to Reduce Conflicts Over Public Lands in the West
Federal land management is more likely to produce acrimony and lawsuits than cooperation. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Voluntary Conservation to the Gopher Tortoise’s Rescue
A new initiative in Georgia shows a better way to do conservation.
Can Land That Isn’t Habitat Be Regulated as ‘Critical Habitat’?
The U.S. Supreme Court hops into dusky gopher frog case.
Reform the Antiquities Act
Trump’s reduction of national monuments is a stopgap, not a solution.
Trump’s Monument Fight
What happens when conservation lives and dies by unconstrained executive power.