Sugg was an early member of the CEI senior staff serving in fundraising and policy roles. He worked with CEI throughout the 1990s until 1998. During that time, he fell in love with the ideas and mission of – and people at – CEI. In 1998, he returned to his home state of Texas, where he assumed the role of Executive Director for the Exotic Wildlife Association. Since leaving the EWA, he has practiced what he preached about free market environmentalism by managing family ranches in West Texas.
Authored by Ike C. Sugg
Op-Eds/Articles
Lords of the Flies
- By: Ike C. Sugg
When President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act in 1973, he inadvertently codified Aldo Leopold’s stylish but stupid aphorism, “To keep every cog and…
The Wall Street Journal
If Grizzly Attacks, Drop Your Gun
- By: Ike C. Sugg
Thanks to the Endangered Species Act, we can now add grizzly bears to the list of those who can get away with murder under our criminal…
Eco-Apartheid: It’s Africans versus Elephants and Environmentalists
- By: Ike C. Sugg
Full document available in pdf format.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Developing nations regularly complain that……
Studies
Saving Species or Saving Face?
- By: Ike C. Sugg
On May 5, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt made a dramatic and much-publicized announcement which — he claimed — showed that the 1973 Endangered Species…
A Texas-Sized Land-Use Plan: The Central Texas Rare Species Conservation Plan
- By: Ike C. Sugg
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPW) is developing a new program known as “the Central Texas Rare Species Conservation Plan.” The plan is…