The people affected by an environmental issue are usually in the best position to know how significant the issue is … More
Tag: conservation
Environmental bureaucracy undermines the trust needed to promote conservation
Trust is important, especially so for conservation. Successful conservation depends on the collaboration of many people: environmentalists, scientists, property owners, … More
Trophy hunting decision highlights the most important and rarely asked conservation question
Update: The Trump administration has announced that it is extending the ban to all African countries, substantially expanding the prior … More
Pipelines v. Property Rights
As fracking has lowered the price of natural gas, the pipelines required to bring the gas to market have, predictably, … More
What Ghostbusters can teach us about environmental regulation
Is the best movie of my childhood an unintentional allegory on the pitfalls of environmental regulation? If you haven’t watched … More
Even if you don’t think hunting is pretty, it’s an effective conservation tool
I am not the person you’d expect to be an outspoken supporter of hunting as a conservation tool. I’ve been … More
Can the government use tax foreclosures to destroy conservation easements without compensation?
Not paying your taxes should and does have serious consequences. Governments, and most people, have little sympathy for tax delinquents. … More
Historic preservation laws lead to deterioration, so does involuntary conservation
In Naperville, a suburb of Chicago, local activists succeeded in stopping the development of a mixed-use (residential & commercial) development … More
Can federalism’s flexibility recover endangered species?
The federal Endangered Species Act has generated a lot of conflict over the last 44 years, but has little to … More
How should environmentalists measure virtue?
An old criticism of socialism is that it measures virtue by how generous someone is with other people’s money. Many … More
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