States are obliged to consider revenue generation through conservation to meet their trust responsibilities.
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The Creation and Extent of America’s First Environmental Agencies
An academic paper exploring why administrative agencies expand and shrink.
Economic Potential of Wind and Solar in American Indian Communities
This academic paper combines data on wind and solar endowments, reservation characteristics, and utility-scale renewable energy projects to offer three insights.
Developing New Tools to De-Risk Wildlife Occupancy on Private Lands
Incorporating de-risking tools into the wildlife conservation toolbox can help conservation practitioners more strategically allocate resources to benefit wildlife and the private lands that help support them.
Sharing and Expanding the Co-Benefits of Conservation
An academic paper published by the journal Ecological Economics
Paper Water, Wet Water, and the Recognition of Indigenous Property Rights
An academic paper exploring Native American water rights and natural resource use.
The Ultimate Resource is Peaking
To extend our two-century era of comparatively rapid progress, we need radically reduced discrimination in the global opportunity to innovate.
Opening the Range: Reforms to Allow Markets for Voluntary Conservation on Federal Grazing Lands
“Use it or lose it” requirements can exacerbate conflict by giving ranchers and conservation interests no alternative to political, legal, or administrative conflict.
The Role of Private Lands in Conserving Yellowstone’s Wildlife in the Twenty-First Century
This paper identifies the necessary conditions for a successful expansion of private-lands conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Allow “Nonuse Rights” to Conserve Natural Resources
Allowing such “nonuse rights” to public natural resources would enable markets to advance environmental goals, leading to more stable and less contentious outcomes.