AUDIO: As the National Park Service celebrates its centennial, it faces a $12 billion backlog. PERC’s Terry Anderson talks to John Batchelor about how to generate revenue for our national parks, free the parks from politics, and get politics out of the parks.
AUDIO: How do public land managers assess wildfire risk? At PERC’s 2016 Wildfire Solutions Summit, Dave Calkin, a wildfire economist and research forester with the U.S. Forest Service, discussed challenges faced by the fire management community and offered ideas for navigating budgetary constraints and policy restrictions to better manage the firescape.
In the heat of election season, could an effective environmental policy involve opening the doors to environmental entrepreneurs?
The New Trail of Tears is a must read if you care about the plight of poor people, in general, and American Indians, in particular.
[…] Bozemanites. How would it impact our prized water and wildlife? And what about our scenic views? At issue is the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation’s plan to cut timber on 730 acres near Mount Ellis. The harvest would occur on state trust lands, which are lands granted to Montana during statehood for […]
[…] increases in damage that result from increases or reductions in suppression effort. Because of these difficulties, public discourse and policies often tend to focus on other more easily calculated metrics, such as suppression costs per acre burned. While this metric may be useful for some purposes, it says nothing about the effectiveness of wildfire […]
[…] service jobs. In pursuing the mutually beneficial goal of mitigating climate change risk, neither nation can ignore how their respective carbon mitigation policies will affect income inequality. Free market environmentalism offers one clear path forward through the adoption of a carbon tax. Such a tax would set clear rules of the game that reduce […]
The chapters in this new book examine how the wealth of Indian Nations has been held hostage and explain how their wealth can be unlocked through self-determination and sovereignty.
[…] helped launch the idea of free market environmentalism and has prompted public debate over the proper role of government in managing natural resources. Scott Campbell is a conservation planner and consultant, and the principal of Innovative Consevation Solutions, LLC (ICS). ICS offers strategic consultation, planning, and project management services to landowners, NGOs, state and local governments, special […]
[…] the logic of ecosystem services. As a leading researcher in conservation policy, Simpson’s conclusions are surprising and challenging. Despite decades of research, there is a dearth of reliable information on the value of ecosystem services. Moreover, basic economic principles suggest that many ecosystem services might be of limited value, and that the ecosystem services […]