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Healthy Public and Private Lands
A New Landscape: 8 Ideas for the Interior Department
Eight policy ideas to deliver environmental and economic improvements for the nation’s lands, waters, and other natural resources.
To Protect Endangered Species, Secure Property Rights
How property rights are an effective means for conserving and recovering endangered species.
The Backwards Effect of the Endangered Species Act
Why rewarding, rather than punishing, conservation on private lands could save more species.
A Monumental Mistake
It’s time to make the Antiquities Act a thing of the past.
The Use and Management of Federal Coal
An in-depth look at the past and future of U.S. federal coal policy.
How to Deal With National Parks’ $12 Billion Maintenance Backlog?
As the centennial celebration for our national parks comes to an end, not all is right within our parks.
Property Rights, Access, and Neighborliness
Land managers should pursue negotiation instead of litigation when settling access disputes.
Walk into Wildfire, The Video
WATCH: In “Walk Into Wildfire,” artists Ethan Turpin and Jonathan PJ Smith arranged life-sized recordings from U.S. Forest Service research cameras to give an otherwise unsurvivable point-of-view.
Why We Fight over Western Lands
Federal land policies encourage conflict instead of negotiation.