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Good habitat management doesn't cost ... it pays
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Don Tiggre
Country: United States

Don Tiggre interviews Brent Haglund of the Sand County Foundation in the March 1999 issue of Heartland's "Environment News". The Sand County Foundation is a world leader in free-market environmentalism. (3/99)

Swamp Rules: The end of federal wetland regulation?
Source: Cato Institute's Regulation Magazine
Author: Jonathan Adler
Country: United States

Recent court decisions limiting federal regulatory authority present a great opportunity for free-market environmentalism and private conservation. Adobe PDF file. (8/99)

Lynn Scarlett's testimony to Congress on home rule and environmental innovation
Source: Reason Public Policy Institute
Author: Lynn Scarlett
Country: United States

In her recent testimony to the U.S. Senate, Reason's Executive Director explains how far state and local governments and private organizations have come since U.S. federalism policies began allowing for more place-based environmental decision making. (5/2/00)

Private conservation: a Tocquevillian tradition
Source: Center for Private Conservation
Author: Robert J. Smith
Country: United States
E-mail: rjsmith@privateconservation.org

"America’s unique approach to private conservation and private stewardship grows out of the penchant by Americans to undertake and form voluntary associations. Alexis de Tocqueville, in his Democracy in America, singled out this characteristic of the American people as one of the most striking things that separated them from the people of the Old World." (07/27/01)

Private conversation in America: the welfare reform analogy
Source: Center for Private Conservation
Author: Fred L. Smith
Country: United States
E-mail: cpc@cei.org

"For too long, environmental policy has focused on restrictions, regulations, and direct government ownership. We constantly hear about what private people sometimes do wrong on our planet, but ignore the positive stories of 'Man, the Gardener' stories of how private individuals and groups have done things right. The time has come for us to learn from the conservation success stories...." (05/01)

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