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Innovation in Wildlife Management
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”
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.
A Private Fix for Leaky Trout Streams
Originally published in Fly Fisherman. Fishing the Ruby River in southwestern Montana can be a joyous way to celebrate spring. But last spring was a different story. Imagine the sickening feeling when we saw a pair of 16-inch brown trout floating belly-up in a trickle of water that was formerly the Ruby River. The deadContinue reading “A Private Fix for Leaky Trout Streams”