All Research:
Innovation in Wildlife Management
Will new brucellosis rules let the bison roam?
To protect the bison in Yellowstoe from slaughter when they leave the park seeking winter forage, some private environmental group with an entrepreneurial plan should reward landovers who providing grazing room.
The Yellowstone Bison: Separating fact from fear
Once an icon of the American west, bison are now hazed through costly government-driven efforts and killed in droves around Yellowstone National Park during the winter. Their crime: migrating outside of the park’s borders onto public and private land in Montana, searching for food. Fueling the slaughters is ranchers’ fear of brucellosis, a bacterial diseaseContinue reading “The Yellowstone Bison: Separating fact from fear”
A Tale of Two Ranches
Why some ranchers see wildlife as a nuisance while others see it as an asset
Eat to extinction
Examining the lionfish “takeover” in waters of the Southeastern U.S. and Caribbean, and what markets are doing to solve it.
The Great Plains: Tragedy or Triumph?
Entrepreneurs are capitalizing on ecotourism and environmental amenities to transform an agricultural economy into a nature-based economy.
Common property, information, and cooperation:
This research empirically investigates cooperative behavior in a natural resource extraction industry in which the provision of a public good (bycatch avoidance) in the Alaskan flatfish fishery is essential to the duration of the fishing season, and an information provision mechanism exists to relay information to all individuals.
Helping Property Rights Evolve in Marine Fisheries
Scarcely a week goes by in which we do not hear or read some distressing news about overfishing in ocean fisheries. Such news comes at a time when the world has witnessed a phenomenal productivity boom in agricultural use of land.
Habitat Credit Trading
The “currency” involved in the habit trading system is habitat credits.
Farming for Fish
The Entiat Valley Habitat Farming Enterprise Program is a vehicle to create successful transactions between willing sellers of riparian habitat and those willing to pay for restoration of fish, improved wildlife habitat, and clean water.