PERC Viewpoints

PERC Viewpoints

PERC Viewpoints is a monthly series featuring original columns focusing on free market solutions to environmental issues, renewable energy and forest management. The opinions of guest authors do not necessarily represent the policy positions of the Frontier Institute.

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A Summer Of Forest Litigation

A Summer Of Forest Litigation

A small collection of litigants, however, continues to derail forest management efforts with lawsuits—jeopardizing the environment they claim to be protecting.

By Hannah Downey

Opportunities To Fix Forests In The Farm Bill

Opportunities To Fix Forests In The Farm Bill

"Fixing our forests will ultimately require cutting through the environmental red tape that prevents many forest-restoration projects from getting off the ground or stalls them until they go up in flames."

By Hannah Downey

Waiting To Burn

Waiting To Burn

"Even when public land managers, officials and researchers agree that this mitigation work is needed on a landscape, the tools that reduce wildfire severity face a long, bureaucratic process of approvals and delays."

By Hannah Downey

The Irony Of A Burn Ban

The Irony Of A Burn Ban

"Policymakers must ask whether the minuscule risk of an escaped prescribed burn is worth doing nothing, allowing fuels to build up and putting the forest at a higher risk of an all-consuming destructive wildfire."

By Hannah Downey