James Watt, Ronald Reagan’s first Secretary of the Interior, was an environmental paradox. To environmentalists, he personified an obsolete view of nature, a view seeing only commercial value in natural resources. But for the Greens, Watt was a useful icon of rapacious industrial exploitation. As such, he deserves much of the credit for the rise […]
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International trade, a vital component of the Northwest economy, has come under fire from a seemingly unlikely source: environmentalists. At issue is the recently concluded North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA), between Canada, Mexico, and the United States. NAFTA would create the world’s largest free-trade zone, encompassing over 360 million people and $6.2 trillion worth of […]
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The Montana chapter of Defenders of Wildlife has announced a new program to encourage wolf re-introduction. This is noteworthy because it seeks to do so with the help of ranchers, until now some of the wolves’ staunchest opponents. This approach could hold the key to fostering the recovery of endangered species nationwide and have implications […]
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This year is the centennial of the National Forest System. Its custodian, the U.S. Forest Service, manages 191 million acres of national forest and rangeland. That’s equal to Texas and Louisiana combined. When founded the Forest Service was intended to be a model of good government in the old progressive model of benevolent despotism—rule by […]
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The federal Endangered Species Act itself may soon be endangered. Throughout the American West, the law now threatens to devastate entire economies based upon altering nature – logging, mining, damming rivers. And many environmentalists are gloating. They are using the grizzly, the wolf and the salmon – symbolically some of America’s most important creatures – […]
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Bozeman, Montana, a town with 30,000 people, contains a modest supermarket that offers valuable lessons. This store has tens of thousands of items of various sizes and brands, generic labels, and bulk products. Competition for the consumer’s dollar occurs among this and other stores, brands within the store, and different products within individual brands. Among […]
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Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, September, 1984, John Baden, contributing author and editor.Available through Amazon Books.
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Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, 1980, John Baden, contributing author and editor.
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