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Water Conservation
Two Forests Under the Big Sky: Tribal v. Federal Management
In this policy series, Alison Berry contrasts forest management in Montana. In her comparison one forest is operated by the United States Forest Service under the watchful eye of Congress. The other is run by Indian tribes on reservation lands.
Unquenchable: America’s water crisis and what to do about it
The United States must come to terms with its lavish use of water and, at the same time, figure out serious solutions to the immediate problem related to access to water.
Readers Speak Out
I’m torn. Some of my fondest Montana memories come from days of fly-fishing publicly accessed streams. In contrast, I’ve also conducted redd counts on one of the state’s most highly contested “stream access” streams and witnessed first-hand the natural resource benefits of privatization.
Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to Do About It
Only when we recognize water’s worth will we begin to conserve it.
Native Americans Need the Rule of Law
By Terry L. Anderson [See research by Terry Anderson and Dominic Parker] Ken Salazar, the new secretary of the Interior, faces the same tough questions as his predecessors: Drill more or drill less? Graze more or graze less? Mine more or mine less? More snowmobiling in national parks, or less? But for an administration committedContinue reading “Native Americans Need the Rule of Law”
Former State Senator Sees Rivers as a Magnet
Doug Barclay vividly remembers a fall day in the early 1980s when he said upwards of 3,000 people were on his New York property along the lower Salmon River
War Zone – Wildlife and Water
When the battles over water in Oregon’s Klamath River Basin were at their peak, PERC organized a meeting in Portland to bring competing parties to the table in search of common ground for reducing the conflict.
Stream Access Across the West
Protecting private property rights is critical to protecting environmental resources because private landowners respond to incentives.
Utah’s access decision could backfire on anglers
Anglers are doing back flips over a recent Utah Supreme Court Decision that makes public all waters in the state and permits recreationists to use streams that cross private property.