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Don't Shut Down America
Source: ecoworld.com/Defenders of Property Rights
Author: Nancy G. Marzulla
Country: United States

A comparison between statist environmentalists -- "blind faith in government to protect the environment" -- and the property rights movement with its reliance on decentralized, private stewardship.

Rob Gordon's testimony before Congress
Source: National Wilderness Institute
Country: United States

Text of NWI executive director Rob Gordon's congressional testimony in favor of incorporating protection for property rights into reform of the Endangered Species Act. (4/16/99)

The Great Land Rush
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Tom Randall
Country: United States

The administration and Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike, are racing to see who can grab the most private property. (7/99)

Solve park controversies with user fees
Source: Thoreau Institute
Country: United States

Allowing federal parks to charge user fees will provide them with ample funds and divorce them from political interference. (1/98)

A soft-paths approach to land conservation
Source: High Country News
Country: United States

Some conservationists have turned away from planning and government mandates in favor of private land trusts and easements. (9/5/94)

An in-your-face range scientist
Source: High Country News
Country: United States

Professor Jerry Holechek, a colleague of Karl Hess, Jr., believes that much damage to public land can be alleviated by ending subsidies to ranchers, who should be allowed to sell grazing permits to environmentalists. (5/1/95)

Grazing reform: Here's the answer
Source: High Country News
Author: Karl Hess Jr. and Johanna H. Wald
Country: United States

A libertarian and a liberal join together to propose ending subsidized grazing on public lands and allow the sale of grazing permits for other uses. (10/2/95)

Taking back the Fifth
Source: Reason
Author: James V. DeLong
Country: United States

"As government expands 'takings' to intellectual property and other intangibles, will business start to care about property rights?" (6/99)

Devolution to the states is working for welfare; it can work for public lands
Source: National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: Gretchen Randall
Country: United States

Randall suggests devolving control of public lands to the states they're in -- whether by outright transfer of the land itself, or by movement of federal management funds to state agencies. (06/01)

Clean at any cost
Source: Doctors for disaster Preparedness Newsletter
Country: United States
E-mail: ddp@free-market.net

The Doctors for Disaster Preparedness discuss a particularly sneaky form of taking so often abused by the environmental lobby: the unfunded mandate. This encourages the careless imposition of new regulations, since their costs needn't be accounted for. For example, the Atrazine drinking water standard cost $92 million per premature death averted. You can't put a price on human life?

Property rights: where would the market and the environment be without them?
Source: Defenders of Property Rights
Author: Nancie Marzulla
Country: United States
E-mail: mail@yourpropertyrights.org

Text of a lecture given by Nancie Marzulla, president of the Defenders of Property Rights, at Hillsdale College. She examines the importance of property rights in protecting the environment by serving as the engine for more efficient and less ecologically destructive technological innovation.

The forgotten human right
Source: Town Hall
Author: Doug Bandow
Country: United States

"Although many people believe that property rights belong to the rich, in all of these cases, property rights are protecting the poor and middle class. Property rights are a basic human right, the best defense for those with the least political influence." (04/17/02)

Socialism by a landslide
Source: World Net Daily
Author: Henry Lamb
Country: United States

"If put to a vote, Americans would likely reject socialism by a substantial majority. Those same Americans, however, are voting by a substantial majority to allow governments to acquire more and more land and to tighten the controls on the private lands that remain." (05/18/02)

My regulatory nightmare
Source: FEE
Author: Stephen Lathrop
State: IL, Country: United States

An IL homebuilder set out to create a new housing development, replacing a dump and flood hazard with a pond. But he ran afoul of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency. (PDF file) (3/03)

Map showing government-owned land in U.S.
Source: Strange Cosmos
Country: United States

1995 map showing government controlled land in U.S. from the National Wilderness Institute.

A brief history of the national land use planning movement
Source: tlknapp.net
Author: Mary Lou Seymour
Country: United States

"In the 1920s, with the siren call of 'centralized planning for the collective good' emanating from Europe, came the first big push for nationwide land use planning."

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