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Innovation in Wildlife Management
The Backwards Effect of the Endangered Species Act
Why rewarding, rather than punishing, conservation on private lands could save more species.
Peru’s Small-Scale Fishers
Fisheries are a prime example of a sector in Latin America that is often poorly managed, heavily regulated by government policies, and creates marginal value.
Dominion Over the Unicorn
Informal tenure and rights-based fishing in nearshore waters offer a more positive outcome to the no-longer-tragic “commons” of the ocean.
Wrangling the Wild Horse Crisis
In order to preserve rangeland and ensure wild horses are protected, some form of population management is necessary.
Better Bred Than Dead
Is wildlife breeding an acceptable conservation strategy?
How Is a Wolverine Like a Spotted Owl?
Environmentalists using the Endangered Species Act for political purposes find a new mascot.
Federal Land Management Has Been Disastrous
In light of the Malheur standoff, the New York Times asked six contributors “should the government still own so much land in the West, and should its control over that land be reduced?”
Trust Alternatives for Range Resource Allocation
Multiple organizational forms shape range management today, and through a comparison of state, private, and federal lands in the US, this essay helps explain why trust land agencies are not more market-oriented stewards of the land and resources.
Banking on Endangered Species
How assigning property rights to protected species turned a landfill into a conservation bank.