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Tag: habitat

Conserving habitat requires better incentives, not more regulatory mandates

Loss of habitat is one of the chief threats to endangered and threatened species. Consequently, the Endangered Species Act provides … More

Critical Habitat, endangered species, Endangered Species Act, ESA, ESA reform, free market environmentalism, habitat, habitat conservation, libertarian environmentalism, Modernize the Endangered Species Act

Can cities contribute more to conservation?

Often, conservation discussions focus on rural and undeveloped areas. When cities come up, it’s largely in the context of reducing … More

Endangered Species Act, free market environmentalism, habitat, libertarian environmentalism, monarch, Property Rights

Supreme Court to review shy frog case, decide whether land that isn’t habitat can be regulated as “critical habitat”

On Monday, the Supreme Court granted review in Weyerhauser v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services—a closely watched case about a federal … More

conservation, Critical Habitat, dusky gopher frog, ESA, free market environmentalism, habitat, Markle, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Weyerhauser, Weyerhauser v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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

Endangered Species Act, habitat, incidental take, McKittrick Policy, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, migratory birds, overcrim, overcriminalization, take

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.

Critical Habitat, endangered species, Endangered Species Act, free market environmentalism, habitat, habitat conservation, incentives, libertarian environmentalism, Property Rights, voluntary conservation

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