Worried About Climate Change

It’s snowing hard at our Gallatin Valley ranch at noon on May 17, 2017. I’m writing to correct today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article listing FREE as skeptical about climate change. No, we aren’t. The data is clear: Average temperatures in Montana have warmed up by 2-3 degrees Fahrenheit since the early 1900’s. Here is the back-story. […]

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Prosperity and Ecology in our Lands of Romance

Introduction by John Baden FREE has recently received a substantial gift.  It enables us to expand our work to conserve important values linked to America’s parks, wildlands, forests, range, wildlife, and waters.  The focus of the project is Greater Yellowstone.  This continues work begun at MSU four decades ago in its Center for Political Economy […]

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