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What Went Wrong With WOTUS: Reflections on Economic Valuation and Environmental Regulation

[…] end, though, the agency identified 10 studies that had been conducted on some of the types of waters that would have become jurisdictional under the rule. The validity of a benefit transfer depends on two things. The first is the credibility of the studies from which results are adapted. If values are not accurately […]

Published on: April 8, 2019

Protecting Wild Horses Will Take a Wild Idea

[…] of Land Management’s Hines Wild Horse Corral in Oregon. © Greg Shine, BLM A romanticized vision of the West inevitably includes an unbridled mustang running wild and free across the range. In reality, wild horses and burros are facing a bleak future as too many of these animals are struggling to scrape out an […]

Published on: April 5, 2019

Will Environmental Regulations Become More Common as Wildfires Worsen?

[…] outcome. If wildfires continue to get worse—as they have dramatically in recent decades—this risk will only increase. Therefore, environmentalists should look for environmentally friendly ways to address this risk in the short term, while avoiding unnecessary environmental harms. Key to such innovation will be bringing private enterprise and free markets to bear on the problem.

Published on: April 3, 2019

Conserving African Wildlife

Statement prepared by Catherine Semcer and presented by Hannah Downey for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s International Wildlife Conservation Council on market approaches for wildlife conservation in Africa.

Published on: March 15, 2019

What Makes Conservation “Collaborative”?

[…] one of the largest conservation effort in recent memory and is often praised as an example of how government can promote collaborative conservation. And recent proposals to revise federal plans for the species have been criticized for unraveling this collaboration. Such a large conservation project defies simple labeling. The sage grouse project stands out for the extent to […]

Published on: March 8, 2019

What Happens When the Government Shuts Down?

[…] to relocate it to improved habitat. In fact, there’s reason to believe that most activities affected by these permit requirements are innocuous or beneficial. A Defenders of Wildlife  study found that, of more than 88,000 Endangered Species Act consultations completed between 2008 and 2015, precisely zero were determined to involve activities likely to jeopardize protected species or adversely […]

Published on: February 14, 2019

Where the Buffalo Roam

[…] bison, camels, horses, or even Asian elephants (a close relative of the American mastodon), then these institutions will have to evolve to allow for other forms of valid use. Simply put, if such rights cannot be acquired for rewilding-oriented conservation, then the bottom-up approach is not feasible in many regions of the United States. […]

Published on: February 11, 2019