The Washington Times April 2, 1996 By Richard Stroup If you live in Two Dot, Montana, open space is easy to come by. A grassy field with a dome of blue sky above is just down the street. And if you leave town for three months or six months or even a year, that openContinue reading “Footing the Bill for Green Space”
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A Better Way to Manage Wildlife
Rocky Mountain News December 20, 1995 By Terry L. Anderson and Michael R. Houser As hunters put away their rifles for the season, a lucky few will reflect on an enjoyable hunt that resulted in a trophy bull elk or buck deer, but most will only dream of such an experience. The average hunterContinue reading “A Better Way to Manage Wildlife”
How the Government Keeps Indians in Poverty
Wall Street JournalNov. 22, 1995 By Terry L. Anderson For a few brief weeks this autumn, American Indians were in the news with their protests over the World Series’ teams nicknames. But, as usual, the protests have faded into the background—and the attention was never on the critical social and economic issues, anyway. TheContinue reading “How the Government Keeps Indians in Poverty”
PC Oil Drilling in a Wildlife Refuge
This article was originally published in the Wall Street Journal. “A Refuge Is No Place for Oil Rigs!” says a flyer issued by the National Audubon Society, which opposes oil drilling in ANWR, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Yet since the early 1950s, 37 wells have pumped natural gas (and a small amountContinue reading “PC Oil Drilling in a Wildlife Refuge”
How Free Markets Protect the Environment
This essay is excerpted from Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns, Jay H. Lehr, editor (New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992). Conventional economic wisdom, in a theory first propounded by Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson, holds that the unregulated market cannot be expected to protect the environment. In this theory, clean air and water are “publicContinue reading “How Free Markets Protect the Environment”
A Private Fix for Leaky Trout Streams
Originally published in Fly Fisherman. Fishing the Ruby River in southwestern Montana can be a joyous way to celebrate spring. But last spring was a different story. Imagine the sickening feeling when we saw a pair of 16-inch brown trout floating belly-up in a trickle of water that was formerly the Ruby River. The deadContinue reading “A Private Fix for Leaky Trout Streams”
Markets and Morality
How markets promote morality.