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Private Partners Can Help Foster More Resilient Forests
A podcast on the need for forest restoration to foster more resilient, healthy forests.
Threatened Rule Improves Incentives to Recover Endangered Species
The 2019 threatened species rule improves incentives. With it under attack, it is critical that states, communities, landowners, and conservationists come to its defense—and that cooler heads at the Fish and Wildlife Service ultimately prevail.
Americans Can Unite Around America the Beautiful
In an era where there is much disagreement and acrimony, the desire to conserve our country’s natural wonders, sacred spaces, and working lands is a point of consensus.
Don’t Reject Trump’s Endangered Species Rules Outright
When it comes to endangered species policy, the question is not whether rules are more or less stringent, but whether they provide the incentives needed to recover species.
Endangered Species Recovery Requires Flexibility, Not Strict Regulations
Reverting to stringent regulations under the Endangered Species Act gets the incentives wrong for species recovery.
Cato Daily Podcast: How Markets Can Help Tackle the Wildfire Crisis
A podcast on the opportunity markets present to manage federal lands in a way that imposes fewer costs on the people who live near them.
A Strong Start for America the Beautiful
As a starting point, the preliminary principles of the America the Beautiful campaign focus on collaboration, voluntary efforts, incentives, local leadership, and honoring property rights.
When the Government Makes Wildfires Worse
Nudging people to dismiss risk by making it cheaper and easier for them to live in fire-prone areas helps no one.
How to Make America the Beautiful
The initial principles put forward by the Biden administration offer the opportunity to promote market-based environmentalism.