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Public Lands and Outdoor Recreation
Winter Kill in Yellowstone
Wall Street JournalJanuary 28, 1997 By Holly Lippke Fretwell and Linda Platts BOZEMAN, Mont. – So far this winter more than 700 Yellowstone National Park bison have been shot on sight or shipped to slaughterhouses as they searched for food outside the park. The purpose of this bloodletting is to prevent the spread of infectiousContinue reading “Winter Kill in Yellowstone”
National Parks
Once considered America’s “crown jewels,” our national parks have become tarnished by monetary problems. Campgrounds are closed, buildings are in disrepair, roads are potholed and natural resources are degraded.
Parks in Transition
This sketch of 27 state parks systems between 1980 and 1994, offers a brief look at the physical characteristics of each park system, its amenities and programs, visitation, fees and funding sources. A companion to the PERC Policy Series: Back to the Future to Save Our Parks, it examines the feasibility of creating self-sufficient parks, and includes specific policy recommendations.
National Parks Can Pay Their Way
Chicago TribuneSeptember 3, 1996 By Terry L. Anderson and Mark Liffman A new day is dawning in our national. Congress has passed a law allowing the National Park Service to begin a two-year pilot program at 10 designated parks. These parks may charge higher fees and, more important, each park will keep 80 percent ofContinue reading “National Parks Can Pay Their Way”
Environmental Group Bids on Salvage Sale
For the first time, a conservation group with no intention of cutting trees outbid logging companies for a stand of trees in a national forest.
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.
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”
The Yellowstone Primer:
More Books by PERC Authors and Editors: Beyond Politics: Markets, Welfare, and the Failure of Bureaucracy, by William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. What Everyone Should Know About Economics and Prosperity, James D.Gwartney and Richard L. Stroup Bozeman, MT.: PERC,1993. The Birth of a Transfer Society, by Terry L.Continue reading “The Yellowstone Primer:”