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Healthy Public and Private Lands
The Endangered Species Act: Making Innocent Species the Enemy
It is increasingly clear that Congress will amend the Endangered Species Act. For one thing, property rights groups, who are important constituents of the new Republican Congress, are outraged at the power the Act gives federal agents to control landowners' use of their property. For another, the Act isn't working well to save species.
The Endangered Species Act: Making Innocent Species the Enemy
The conflict between the fact of scarcity and the apparent ability of the Fish and Wildlife Service to disregard limits is the underlying problem with the Act. Until that conflict is resolved, the ESA will not work effectively to save species.
Fee Hunting
Public land managers are finding it ever more difficult to provide hunters with a quality hunting experience. With low success rates and poor hunting conditions on public land, hunters increasingly choose to hunt on private land for a fee. Few people hunt strictly for meat, but state and federal agencies continue to manage asContinue reading “Fee Hunting”
Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management
A leading expert on public lands and land rights issues, Robert H. Nelson shows why the existing public land system, grounded in a philosophy of scientific management, has failed. Using insights gained from nearly two decades at the U.S. Department of Interior, Nelson analyzes the past 25 years of public land policy and documents majorContinue reading “Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management”
Forestry
The Forest Service needs strong incentives to adhere to the bottom line. The right motivation could help create a profitable timber program.
Wildlife in the Marketplace
Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill, Editors Wildlife and markets need not be inimical to one another. This book is designed to stimulate imaginative efforts to create better incentives for habitat preservation. The chapters address how both the demand and supply side of the marketplace can be harnessed to provide the proper incentives forContinue reading “Wildlife in the Marketplace”
Multiple Conflicts Over Multiple Uses
Terry L. Anderson, Editor This volume examines the prospects for reducing conflicts over public land management by substituting markets for bureaucracies. The conclusion is that a healthy dose of free market environmentalism is the best way to eliminate conflicts over multiple uses, to reduce the drain of the federal treasury and to promote cooperation. TerryContinue reading “Multiple Conflicts Over Multiple Uses”
PERC’s “After Rio” Journalism Conference Spurs Reaction
A correspondence on why government’s efforts to conserve our natural resources fall short of the work done by private conservationists.
Zimbabwe Makes Living With Wildlife Pay
When people live in subsistence conditions, an environmental ethic easily gives way to survival. When people view wild animals as a valuable asset, poaching and habitat destruction decrease.