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Water Conservation
Free the Indians
By Jay Ambrose American Indians have agreed to take $3.4 billion of some $200 billion that tribes have said the federal government owes them for mismanagement of trust lands. Not as bad as it could have been when dealing with Washington bureaucrats. But there is much more to be done, such as liberating these peopleContinue reading “Free the Indians”
Water Markets: Why Not More?
At the PERC workshop, scholars presented papers examining why water markets have not developed further than they have and explored how institutional and political barriers might be lowered.
The Emerging Water Crisis in the United States
"Water lubricates the American erconomy just as oil does," says Robert Glennon, author of the new Island Press book Unqunenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to Do About It. It’s hard to argue with his premise. Just as with oil, supplies of water are finite and are coming under increased stress as populationContinue reading “The Emerging Water Crisis in the United States”
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