Saving Endangered Species
Posted: May 18, 2012 Filed under: Endangered Species, Unintended Consequences Leave a comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KEgNemu3mfI
Polar Bears are Back!
Posted: April 11, 2012 Filed under: Endangered Species, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Hunting Endangered Species
Posted: January 30, 2012 Filed under: Endangered Species Leave a comment »http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/01/hunting-endangered-species.html
PETA Should Praise Capitalism
Posted: January 24, 2012 Filed under: Endangered Species, Environment, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
PETA Should Praise Capitalism
Assessing Endangered Species Science
Posted: October 18, 2011 Filed under: Endangered Species, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Assessing Endangered Species Science
Property Rights Key to Conservation in Namibia
Posted: October 13, 2011 Filed under: Endangered Species, Environment Leave a comment »http://neighborhoodeffects.mercatus.org/2011/10/11/property-rights-key-to-conservation-in-namibia/
How Private Propety Rights and Limited Trophy Hunting Saved the African Rhino From Extinction
Posted: August 24, 2011 Filed under: Endangered Species Leave a comment »http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-private-propety-rights-and-limited.html
Scientist responsible for Gore’s claim about Polar Bears under investigation for claims
Posted: July 30, 2011 Filed under: Endangered Species, Environment, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Scientist responsible for Gore’s claim about Polar Bears under investigation for claims
The Non-tragedy of the Bison Commons
Posted: May 14, 2011 Filed under: Endangered Species, Tragedy of the Commons, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
The Non-tragedy of the Bison Commons
Fees of $150,000 to hunt a black rhino may save the species
Posted: December 30, 2010 Filed under: Endangered Species, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Fees of $150,000 to hunt a black rhino may save the species
Tigers and Endangered Species
Posted: February 14, 2010 Filed under: Endangered Species, Environment, Property Rights Leave a comment »The Market Saved the Alligator from Extinction
Posted: January 21, 2010 Filed under: Endangered Species, Environment Leave a comment »http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/01/case-study-in-1967-american-alligator.html
Polar Bears and Global Warming
Posted: November 16, 2009 Filed under: Endangered Species, Environment, Global Warming Leave a comment »http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/thespike/2008/05/15/the-great-polar-bear-crisis/
Recommended Articles and Books on the Environment
Posted: November 3, 2009 Filed under: Endangered Species, Environment Leave a comment »http://fee.org/homeschool/recommended-articles-books-environmental-policy/
Is the Endangered Species Act Endangering Species?
Posted: November 1, 2009 Filed under: Endangered Species, Environment, Unintended Consequences Leave a comment »http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=953200
Abstract:
We develop theory and present a suite of theoretically consistent empirical measures to explore the extent to which market intervention inadvertently alters resource allocation in a sequentialmove principal/agent game. We showcase our approach empirically by exploring the extent to which the U.S. Endangered Species Act has altered land development patterns. We report evidence indicating significant acceleration of development directly after each of several events deemed likely to raise fears among owners of habitat land. Our preferred estimate suggests an overall acceleration of land development by roughly one year. We also find from complementary hedonic regression models that habitat parcels declined in value when the habitat map was published, which is consistent with our estimates of the degree of preemption. These results have clear implications for policymakers, who continue to discuss alternative regulatory frameworks for species preservation. More generally, our modeling strategies can be widely applied — from any particular economic environment that has a sequential-move nature to the narrower case of the political economy of regulation.
Preemptive Habitat Destruction Under the Endangered Species Act
Posted: November 1, 2009 Filed under: Endangered Species, Environment, Unintended Consequences Leave a comment »Abstract:
This paper examines the extent to which landowners have preemptively destroyed endangered species’ habitats in order to avoid potential landuse regulations prescribedunder the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Under the ESA it is not only illegal to take (kill) an endangered species, but it is also illegal to damage their habitat. Our application is to red-cockaded woodpeckers (RCWs) in the forests of North Carolina. RCWs are an endangered species that live in old growth pine forests throughout the Southeast. Our primary hypothesis is that the closer a landowner is to known populations of RCWs, the more likely the landowner will take action to destroy the habitat for RCWs, primarily by “prematurely” cutting their pine forest. By preventing the establishment of an old growth pine stand, the landowner can insure that RCWs do not inhabit their land and avoid ESA regulations that limit or prohibit timber harvest activity. Two empirical questions are addressed: How does the potential for ESA regulation affect the harvest probability of a particular forest plot? How does the potential for ESA regulation affect the age at which a forest will be harvested? Data on over 1,000 individual forest plots from the U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) and a 1997-98 North Carolina State University (NCSU) survey of over 400 landowners are used to test predictions about the probability of harvest and the age of timber when it is harvested. The location of RCW populations is used to construct various measures of the probability that a forest plot will become inhabited by RCWs and thus subject to ESA restrictions on land use. Probit regressions estimate the probability that a plot is harvested and OLS regressions – corrected for harvest selection bias – estimate the age at which a plot is harvested. In all our estimates we find that increases in the proximity of a plot to RCWs increases the probability that the plot will be harvested and decreases the age at which the forest is harvested. These findings indicate that the ESA, at least for RCWs in North Carolina, actually reduces the amount of endangered species habitat.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=223871
Eating Endangered Species One Mouthful at a Time
Posted: October 19, 2009 Filed under: Endangered Species, Environment Leave a comment »http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90334349
The Elephant’s Best Friend
Posted: October 19, 2009 Filed under: Endangered Species, Environment Leave a comment »http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n14_v43/ai_11121382/?tag=content;col1
