Enabling nonuse rights helps level the playing field between conservation and extraction, and has the potential to dramatically scale-up private sector conservation. This video highlights research by emLab’s CCostello, APlantinga, and Bryan Leonard policyed.org/intellections/…

This dude is on his Dolores Umbridge

While conservation has traditionally been the government’s responsibility, expanding nonuse rights would be a major boost for market-based conservation. Check out this video referencing research by emLab team members and affiliates to learn more: policyed.org/intellections/…

PERC is hiring a Director of Conservation. Is it you? Come join our awesome team. perc.org/career-opportu…

Can the American West adapt to its even drier future? From the latest issue of PERC Reports: perc.org/2022/12/20/dow…

Even as the West grapples with historic drought, most Native American tribes lack the authority to do something other Americans can: lease their water rights. @lesliesanch2o explains in the latest PERC Reports magazine: perc.org/2022/12/20/how…

GRAD STUDENTS: Applications are now open for PERC's 2023 Graduate Fellowships. Come work on your thesis or dissertation in beautiful Bozeman with us this summer! perc.org/programs/stude…

Coming soon in JHPE: 2(4), special issue on The Development of the American West. (Last issue of 2022 -- a tad late!) Articles by Melissa Rogers, Eric Alston, Jonathan Homola, Marie Christine Dugg & others.

Grad students- one week left to apply to PERC Graduate Fellowship Program! Come join us in Bozeman this summer. perc.org/programs/stude…

Grad students working in the area of land, water, and wildlife (broadly defined)- come work on your research in Bozeman this summer. The PERC Grad Fellowship application deadline is tomorrow. Get those apps in!

Conservation groups should be able to lease land to protect it hcn.org/articles/publi… (a High Country News piece by Bryan Leonard and me last year making this case)

“Conservation should be considered a valid use of public lands, and groups should be able to acquire those leases and decide to conserve them in some form or restore them,” says Shawn Regan huffpost.com/entry/biden-co…

Deadline for the Sloan Foundation Energy Institute at Haas 2023 Grad Camp is around the corner (June 23). Apply here: auffhammer.com/summer-school. Lineup is Awesome. Meredith Fowlie, Joseph Shapiro, Susanna Berkouwer, @krhwagner, James Sallee, Marshall Burke, Koichiro Ito 伊藤公一朗, @teevrat and yours truly.

Come join us in Bozeman next Summer! Meet other scholars, present your research, and receive detailed feedback. And that leaves plenty of time for some of the best hiking/fishing/biking in the U.S.!

Douglas W. Allen & Bryan Leonard argue homesteading in the early 20th century served to make Native land dispossession permanent in legal contexts even where legal defeat eventually occurred. #APSRFirstView ow.ly/vSZY50R1xUY

👋 Meet our 2024 visiting fellows! PERC offers two distinct fellowships designed for scholars, law, and graduate students to spend time at our headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, working on a research project addressing a pressing environmental challenge.