[…] including allowing users to keep or sell unused water, eliminating restrictions on changing the use of water, expediting short-term lease approvals, and recognizing aquifer storage as a valid water use. In California, for example, recharging depleted groundwater aquifers is not considered a βbeneficial useβ and therefore is not a legally valid use of water […]
Agriculture uses the vast majority of water in the arid West. Shouldnβt there be simple ways to trade the valuable resource?
A firsthand account of the legislative quest to reform Utah water law and allow conservationists to protect fish and wildlife habitat
Examples of free market environmentalism and creative conservation from around the world
For decades, the Bureau of Land Management has been between the proverbial rock and a hard place. The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burrows Act directs the agency to βprotectβ wild horses on the federal rangeΒ andΒ to βimmediately removeβ excess horses when they threaten rangeland ecosystems. But the agencyβs efforts to satisfy these competing objectives have […]
Reducing wildfire risk will require reducing barriers to getting forest management work done on the ground.
A controlled burn conducted in Kaibab National Forest Hannah Downey, PERCβs policy director, joins Caleb O. Brown of the Cato Daily Podcast to discuss the value of forest management in mitigating catastrophic wildfire, and how federal policy often stands in the way.
Rock Lake in the Crazy Mountains North of Big Timber, MT. Jonathan Wood, PERCβs vice president of law and policy, joins Your Mountain to discuss contentious access issues in the West. They dive into a New Mexico stream access case that may find its way to the US Supreme Court and then provide an […]
An NBC Bay Area interview on the need for active forest management.
A podcast about the role of markets in conserving eagles and water, and how litigation stymies forest restoration work.