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To the U.S. Forest Service: Sustaining everything sustains nothing
New Forest Service policy calls for more sustainability even for communities and recreation. Trying to make everything sustainable simply makes no sense.
Squeezing Profits from Endangered Species
A savvy new breed of capitalist is using incentives such as mitigation credits to protect critical habitat and earn profits.
Bye, bye bison
Just as the market brought the bison to near extinction, so too has it brought them back from the brink.
The ark in dry dock
Retooling the Endangered Species Act
The Secret Life of Trees: How Pens Are Preserving Old-Growth Forests
Pens from old-growth forests preserve the forest as well as its history.
Hunting Endangered Species
The scimitar horned oryx, the addax, the dama gazelle—endangered animals one would expect to encounter in Africa. Yet, as some Texas ranches are proving, helping to bring back large numbers of these endangered species can be a profitable pastime. As this 60 Minutes segment shows, by allowing a number of these animals to be hunted forContinue reading “Hunting Endangered Species”
Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform
In Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform, Jonathan H. Adler leads a group of environmental law experts in evaluating the ESA’s successes and failures and exploring multiple avenues for reform.
Colony Collapse Disorder: The Market Response to Bee Disease
This policy series on Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious phenomenon affecting honey bees, shows how real people resolve environmental problems.
Market proposed to end feud over whale hunting
Hoping to defuse a three-decade feud over whale hunting, three academics are making an audacious proposal: The world should put a price on killing whales and allow conservationists and whalers alike to bid on the right to take them.