Ecology and Prosperity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Ecology and Prosperity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

FREE’s work on Yellowstone, the world’s first national park, links ecology, liberty and prosperity.  This summer we are engaged with MSU professor Jerry Johnson on a new project, Ecology and Prosperity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.  We are exploring how sustainable, largely natural ecosystems, have become engines of prosperity.    This is mainly because amenity […]

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The Continuing Evolution of America’s Lands of Romance

The natural resource reforms surrounding the Progressive Era, 1890 through WWI, were surely positive experiments in resource management.  They did a great deal to preserve today’s lands of romance.  The creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 is the best example.  Their greatest reform contributions were protecting common pools and constraining the unlawful exploitation of […]

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