What happens when conservation lives and dies by unconstrained executive power.
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We’re Not Paying Our Fair Share to Visit National Parks
If our parks, forests, and wilderness areas are truly national treasures, then outdoor recreationists should have no qualms paying to support them.
Hunting Can Be Good for Lions and Elephants
Though it is perhaps an uncomfortable reality, trophy hunting can promote wildlife conservation.
Stop Treating Wildfires Like Unexpected Natural Disasters
If legislators provide an implicit blank check for fighting fires, they risk spurring more development in fire-prone areas.
Solutions to Rockweed Harvesting Should be Rooted in Property Rights
If landowners have clear rights to rockweed, they’ll have incentive to preserve it.
Pipelines v. Property Rights
Amid a natural-gas boom aided by fracking, the use of eminent domain to build pipelines has exacerbated conflicts.
When Does Hunting Earn a Trophy?
Responsible hunting can help ensure exotic species are protected from poaching and corruption.
Even If You Don’t Think Hunting Is Pretty, It’s an Effective Conservation Tool
Many may never like hunting, but hopefully we can all agree that it is better than the alternative—losing rare species forever.
The Supreme Court Wrestles Again With the Clean Water Act’s Due Process Deficit
The Clean Water Act forbids the “discharge” of “pollutants” into “navigable waters.” But none of those terms are interpreted as an ordinary person would.
Can the Government Use Tax Foreclosures to Destroy Conservation Easements Without Compensation?
If tax foreclosure could destroy innocent easement owners’ property, conservation easements could be especially vulnerable.