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Senate’s turn to pass the Fix Our Forests Act
It’s not often that legislation has as much bipartisan support as H.R. 471, the Fix Our Forests Act (FOFA) does. On January 23, FOFA…
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National Public Lands Day shines light on reasonable entrance fees
September 27 was National Public Lands Day. To celebrate, the National Park Service (NPS) advertised free admission to national parks that normally…
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Happy birthday, Smokey Bear! Let’s fight forest fires the right way
Smokey Bear, the famous US Forest Service (USFS) mascot, celebrated his 81st birthday this past Saturday, August 9. Smokey Bear was created in 1944…
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Since 1970, conservationists have painted a dismal picture of an increasing struggle for survival of wildlife, with one species after another being pushed to the…
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Restricting Trade Will Not Help The Environment
Full Article Available in PDF Format Executive Summary Expanding free trade to include all nations could have beneficial effects…
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How to Dismantle the Interior Department
Full Document Available in PDF The Department of the Interior was…
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The World’s Forests
Full Document Available in PDF A number of diverse currents and pressures are simultaneously being brought to bear on the world’s forests. In…
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How And Why To Transfer BLM Lands To The States
Executive Summary Devolving federal responsibilities to the states has emerged as a central theme of the 104th Congress. No area has greater potential…
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The True State Of The Planet
The True State of the Planet: Ten of the World’s Premier Environmental Researchers in a Major Challenge to the Environmental Movement Date: 1995 Edited…
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Appendix: Are Property Rights Popular?
Full Document Available in PDF Conflicting sides in the property rights debate claim popular…
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Property Wrongs: The Growth of Federal Land-Use Control
Full Document Available in PDF In the spring of…
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Putting People Last: Endangered Species vs. People
Full Document Available in PDF Law-abiding, workaday Americans all across…
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Population, Food, and Income
Full Document Available in PDF World population has increased tremendously in our century…and it continues to grow with extraordinary speed. This demographic explosion,…
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Pick a Number
Full Study Available in PDF How much would you be willing to pay for an…
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A Free-Market Environmental Vision
Full Chapter Available in PDF Format Executive Summary There is one environmental vision, and only one, that is compatible…
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Fire in Paradise: The Yellowstone Fires and the Politics of Environmentalism
ON AUGUST 20, 1988–A DAY THAT came to be known as “Black Saturday”–about 160,000 acres were consumed by fires in the greater Yellowstone Park…
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The Market and Nature
(Originally appeared in The Freeman, September 1993) Many environmentalists are dissatisfied with the environmental record of free economies. Capitalism, it is claimed, is…
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Eco-Apartheid: It’s Africans versus Elephants and Environmentalists
Full document available in pdf format.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Developing nations regularly complain that……
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Consumer Advocacy Group Attacks FDA for Slow Approval of Cancer Treatment
May 14, 1992—(Washington, DC) The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that FDA’s delay in approving Interleukin-2 may have cost as many as 3500 lives. IL-2…
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Environmental Policy at the Crossroads
Full Chapter Available in PDF Format Executive Summary It has always been with us, and…
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Environmental Protection: Is there a Better Way
Earth Day 1990-22 April—marks twenty years since the first Earth Day and since the modern environmental movement became a force for politicians to reckon with.
