Earth Day is a moment to celebrate the gains of conservation and the natural world.
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During National Park Week, Remember that Our Parks Need Our Help
With creative approaches we can fill our parks’ financial hole and keep from digging a new one.
Who Is Responsible for Clean Water?
If federal authority ebbs, will states take the lead on regulating upstream water quality?
The Option Value of Conservation
Is a tree more valuable if harvested now, in a decade, or not at all? These questions tee up the issue of option value.
Why Punish People Who Try to Clean Up Pollution?
Too often, strict liability deters people from taking steps to improve environmental outcomes.
Protecting Wild Horses Will Take a Wild Idea
Incentive payments to promote wild horse and burro adoptions will benefit the animals, our rangelands, and taxpayers.
Will Environmental Regulations Become More Common as Wildfires Worsen?
Environmentalists have something to gain from reducing unnecessary permit burdens.
Property Rights Are the Key to Conserving Maine’s Rockweed
In a win for conservation and property rights, Maine’s supreme court decides that rockweed cannot be harvested without owner consent.
Property Rights Are For Everyone—Even American Prairie Reserve
To attack APR’s property rights — or to use state resources to formally rebuke the good-faith efforts of a law-abiding conservation organization — is to undermine the property rights of everyone.
Why Congress, Not the President, Should Lead on Environmental Protection
When Congress makes environmental decisions the outcome will likely reflect more consensus and compromise than when the executive branch decides.