[…] carve-outs to reduce their burdens, concentrating them even further on those who lack political influence. The same is true of environmental regulation. Powerful, wealthy corporations can more easily navigate the bureaucracy than politically powerless property owners. And regulatory capture threatens to convert environmental regulation into a tool for squelching competition. If using political power […]
A private-property approach to conservation is superior to conservation on government land.
[…] in preparing the way for part of President Trumpโs border wall to cut through their center, which is more than a mile from the border. If the plan to use eminent domain on the center is followed through, the wall will separate the visitor center from much of the habitat that attracts bird and […]
[…] losing their water right, Mannix Brothers Ranch was able to skip late-season irrigation and leave water instream. In return, the ranch was compensated to cover the lost pasture production creating a win-win deal for both fish and farmer. The emergence of environmental markets for water is helping rewater the west. Download theย supplemental learning guide (PDF).
WATCH: How profits earned from bee pollination markets help prevent bee populations from declining as a result of Colony Collapse Disorder.
American Prairie Reserve has created a public-private partnership in eastern Montana to restore 3.5 million acres of native flora and fauna.
[…] static ones. A restriction that is best for conservation in 2017 may not be best for conservation in 2117. Therefore, property owners and easement holders should be free to strike mutually beneficial compromises to adjust an easementโs restrictions. Suppose, for instance, a conservation easement limits farming to a portion of a large tract of […]
How to rein in the costs of the federal governmentโs wild horse program.
There are several ways Congress and the Interior Department could now implement formal co-management on Bears Ears National Monument.
No matter the intentions behind environmental regulation, it ultimately suffers the same shortcomings that other forms of government regulation do.