Shawn Regan

PERC Reports: Winter 2018

This special issue of PERC Reports, supported by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, explores the shifting demands placed on the West’s natural resources.

Brian Yablonski

Like the Stars

As New West meets Old West, conflict is the norm. It doesn’t have to be.

Tisha Schuller

Down the Fracking Hole

After years on the front lines of Colorado’s energy fights, here’s what I’ve learned about why natural resource issues are so divisive—and what to do about it.

Todd Wilkinson

The New Grizzly Hunters

Creative conservationists search for innovative ways to pay for the natural amenities they value.

Snapshots

Examples of free market environmentalism in action.

Martin Doyle

A Permit Runs Through It

Oregon ranchers who set out to restore streams in Silvies Valley find regulatory purgatory.

Tate Watkins

Brewing Water Conservation in the West

A new market in Arizona shows how small innovations can help conserve water in the West—and why many more will be needed in the Colorado River Basin.

Daniel Benjamin

Weatherization Woes

Do government investments in energy efficiency pay off?

Jonathan Wood

A Thin(ning) Market?

How new markets can help align incentives that will reduce wildfire risk.

Travis Kavulla

The Pretext Problem

Our politics is broken when it doesn’t allow participants to state their ends plainly.