[…] options. At PERC, we have several projects that are focused on working with private landowners to develop wildlife conservation solutions in the river valleys coming out of Yellowstone National Park. Through this work, I have learned firsthand how every state in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is different, and how every river valley in each […]
In Yellowstone, conservation starts with taking care of the people responsible for protecting the park’s resources.
[…] affirmed its earlier approval of the project. A year later, a lawsuit was filed challenging that decision. Meanwhile, nearly 10,000 square miles of land within the Greater Yellowstone area were designated as critical habitat for the Canada lynx, and the Ninth Circuit held in 2015 that this development required yet more analysis for the […]
[…] to instead focus on wildlife conservation and what landowner incentives will mean for elk habitat. The reality is private lands are essential elk habitat—elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem spend as much as 80 percent of their time on private land during the winter. These elk impose significant costs on the landowners, unique costs […]
Former park ranger housing in Yellowstone National Park, an example of deferred maintenance. This article was originally published in National Parks Traveler. Last month, the Interior Department made an announcement that could have implications for those of us who love parks: In 2020, federal energy disbursements fell by about $3.5 billion, a plunge of 31 percent compared […]
How national park visitors in the United States could help address the need for wildlife conservation efforts beyond park boundaries, using a case study of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
[…] bidders were allowed, would they prevent agencies from properly managing natural resources? Those questions are at the forefront of several debates playing out in my backyard near Yellowstone National Park. In one recent case, a proposed timber sale on state trust lands in the Gallatin Valley near Bozeman, Montana, sparked organized opposition from a […]
[…] Act will provide dedicated funding for overdue maintenance but will not support operational needs. With public land visitation showing no sign of decline—even amidst the coronavirus pandemic Yellowstone National Park recently had its busiest September and October on record—fee revenues look to be a reliable source of funding for many federal sites in the […]
[…] like a human caddisfly hatch all matted together. Then there is the story of three men who were caught in August boiling chickens—of all things—in one of Yellowstone’s thermal hot spring features. It seemed the perfect metaphor for the “Summer of Yellowstone.” Even without the annual influx of international tourists, the park set several […]
[…] of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park This article was originally published in The Hill. “For too long, our national jewels have been neglected,” then-Vice President Joe Biden said while visiting Yellowstone National Park in 2010. “We’re beginning to polish, once again, these national jewels,” he added, in reference to a $750 million stimulus package from the Obama […]