Lone Mountain Fellow, Senior Fellow
Temple Stoellinger is a 2023 Lone Mountain Fellow as well as a PERC senior fellow and an assistant professor at Wyoming University’s Huab School of Environment and Natural Resources and co-director of the Center for Law and Energy Resources in the Rockies.
Before joining the University of Wyoming, Temple most recently served as the natural resource attorney for the Wyoming County Commissioners Association (WCCA). Through this role, she provided legal advice and engaged in litigation on issues of energy and natural resource law on behalf of the boards of county commissioners in Wyoming’s 23 counties.
Before working for the WCCA, Temple worked in the Projects and Technology Legal Department for Shell, International B.V. at their world headquarters in the Netherlands. From 2004-2010 Temple served as a natural resource analyst and advisor to Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal where she had the opportunity to work on a wide variety of energy and natural resource issues of statewide, regional, and national significance. She holds a B.S. and a J.D. from the University of Wyoming.
"Use it or lose it" requirements can exacerbate conflict by giving ranchers and conservation interests no alternative to political, legal, or administrative conflict.
This paper identifies the necessary conditions for a successful expansion of private-lands conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Allowing such “nonuse rights” to public natural resources would enable markets to advance environmental goals, leading to more stable and less contentious outcomes.
How national park visitors in the United States could help address the need for wildlife conservation efforts beyond park boundaries, using a case study of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.