So many environmental issues lead to conflict that it’s easy to think that such conflict is inevitable. But it needn’t … More
Tag: Endangered Species Act
In 2018, will the federal government be an ally in the fight against overcriminalization?
In this year’s pre-Christmas news dump, the Department of Interior announced it was reversing the agency’s prior interpretation of the … More
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
Matching the Endangered Species Act’s incentives with its ethics
It looks increasingly likely that Congress will attempt to overhaul the Endangered Species Act next year. Rob Bishop, chairman of … 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 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 feel about the Constitution?
The environmental movement is young by constitutional standards, gaining steam in the early 20th century and becoming a powerful political … More
The inevitable overregulation and overcriminalization of environmental law
A four-year battle between the federal government and Duarte Nursery over the farm’s plowing of a field to plant wheat—for … More
Endangered species depend on private land for habitat, so why treat landowners as the enemy?
Designating uninhabitable private land as “critical habitat” discourages private conservation with no compensating benefit for species.
New leader of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could steer agency in more collaborative direction
At long last, the Administration has chosen an acting leader for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—an important federal agency … More
