Government lawyer in grizzly hearing: “I can almost guarantee” we’ll be here again.

After decades of work by federal biologists, state wildlife agencies, landowners, and conservation groups, the grizzly bears in and around … More

Endangered species bear the costs of bad incentives

The Endangered Species Act imposes significant regulatory burdens on anyone who owns land where endangered and threatened species or their … More

Will sea otters soon be returned to San Francisco bay?

California sea otters have come a long way from the 50-member population discovered off Big Sur in the early 1900s, … More

Insuring a future for apex predators

Where wildlife poses risks to those who live and work near them, people predictably take steps to reduce their liability. … More

This Endangered Species Day, we should celebrate species’ recovery and imagine innovative ways to encourage more recoveries

Today is the thirteenth Endangered Species Day, a day marked by Congress to celebrate the efforts of a wide variety … More

A bug’s life: the American burying beetle’s recovery should be a cause for celebration, not alarm

Should a species’ improvement be a cause for celebration or concern? That question is posed by the response to this … More

What makes conservation “collaborative”?

One of the chief benefits of embracing free market environmentalism is that it will ensure conservation is more collaborative. Where … More

Bureaucratic overhead: what share of species’ funding should go to red tape?

This week, more than 200 organizations signed on to a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations … More

To encourage more species recovery, we need to acknowledge and reward successes

Last month, a federal court ordered the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem population of grizzly bears put back on the endangered species … More

What are “reasonable efforts” to restore habitat? Supreme Court argument highlights the importance of who pays to recover endangered species

On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument in Weyerhaeuser Co. v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, … More