The National Park Service should look to superintendents on the ground and provide the flexibility to continue experimenting in all aspects of operation.
PERC CEO Brian Yablonski is interviewed on the popular morning show to discuss increased national park visitation.
Conserving migration corridors will be achieved not by designation or regulation, but through voluntary incentives and market signals that reward landowners for conservation.
There is some risk to prescribed fires, but that risk must be compared to the risk of not conducting fuel treatments and having the forest burn completely.
Ensuring that resources make it to the ground in a timely manner will require policy change.
Markets can save the environment. In fact, they’re already doing It.
A daunting restoration backlog in national Forests fuels the wildfire crisis. With increased funding coming, significant policy and litigation obstacles still stand in the way of forest restoration.
Private partners are ready to act, and it’s time policymakers free them to start remediating abandoned mines.
As Yellowstone National Park commemorates its 150th anniversary this week it’s worth remembering what it took to establish this icon of conservation.
The focus on active restoration instead of strict preservation will go a long way to confront the wildfire crisis, but only if red tape and regulatory challenges don’t interfere.