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Introducing PERC Executive Director Brian Yablonski

Β  PERC is excited to announce that Brian Yablonski assumed the role of Executive Director on January 16, 2018. Brian served on PERC’s Board from 2013 and as a member of the Executive Committee and chair of the Nominations Committee since 2015. Brian was formerly Chairman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, […]

Published on: January 16, 2018

Conserving Taimen in Mongolia

In Mongolia, Taimen, a fish in the salmon and trout family, are being protected by catch-and-release fishing.

Published on: December 19, 2017

Pay to Play

A look at the nature of public land recreation and how markets can enhance opportunities to protect open space.

Published on: December 19, 2017

Timeless and Timely

[…] policymakers. We remodeled the Enviropreneur Institute into a two-day conservation β€œhackathon” that reconnects our ideas to conservation organizations. And, perhaps most importantly, we hashed out a strategic plan that focuses our energy, efforts, and resources on striving to make free market environmentalism the default approach to conservation. None of this would have been possible […]

Published on: December 14, 2017

Peer-to-Peer Anti-Poaching

[…] of records that are secured cryptographically. It functions as a distributed ledger capable of durably and verifiably recording transactions via a peer-to-peer network with established protocols for validating new records. Each record, or β€œblock,” is linked to a previous record along with a timestamp and transaction data. Once recorded, a block is impossible to […]

Published on: December 13, 2017

Transforming the Department of the Interior for the Twenty-First Century

[…] century. My name is Shawn Regan, and I am a research fellow at PERCβ€”the Property and Environment Research Centerβ€”a nonprofit institute located in Bozeman, Montana, where I study public land issues. PERC is the nation’s leading institute dedicated to exploring free-market solutions to environmental problems. My testimony today will offer several policy ideas that […]

Published on: December 7, 2017

Easements for Endangered Species

A collaborative approach to the lesser prairie chicken shows how a wide variety of groups can come together to protect at-risk species.

Published on: December 6, 2017

Leave No Trace?

[…] visit national forests and parks. The Forest Service has reported that nearly one-third of visitors in recent years had household incomes of $100,000 or higher. A 2013 study by researchers from the University of Idaho found that the median household income of summer Yellowstone visitors was $75,000β€”nearly 50 percent higher than the national median. […]

Published on: December 6, 2017