The national leader in market solutions for conservation

Because incentives matter for conservation.

The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) explores how aligning incentives for environmental stewardship produces sustainable outcomes for land, water, and wildlife.

Research

Law & Policy

Innovation Lab

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Advancing the Invisible Revolution

May 13, 2025

PERC Awards Over $400k in Virtual Fence Grants to Innovative Ranchers

Utah’s Moonshot

March 27, 2025

How Voluntary Water Leasing Can Help Restore the Great Salt Lake

10 Ideas for the Interior Department

March 21, 2025

How to accelerate conservation and cut green tape

our focus

Advancing new frontiers

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Healthy Public and Private Lands

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Innovations in Wildlife Management

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Fix America’s Forests

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Sustainable Public Lands and Outdoor Recreation

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Water Conservation Innovation

How we create impact

Research

We explore creative solutions to pressing conservative challenges.

Law & Policy

We advance our ideas through environmental law and policy reform.

Innovation Lab

We develop, prototype, and assess groundbreaking conservation models.

The latest

Kat Dwyer

May 13, 2025

Advancing the Invisible Revolution

PERC Awards Over $400k in Virtual Fence Grants to Innovative Ranchers

Kat Dwyer

May 1, 2025

Bravo, Washington Post

A Welcome Call for Endangered Species Act Reform

Brian Yablonski

April 17, 2025

For Earth Day, Let’s Try Speeding Up Instead of Slowing Down

As we mark Earth Day 2025, we remember effective conservation doesn’t have to be about regulation—it’s about alignment.

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