51 Publications
Aboriginal Influences and the Original State of Nature: A New Paradigm for Conservation
Date Published: 8/5/2013
An Analysis of Utah HB148: Comparing Federal and State Land Management Regimes
The purpose of this report is to develop a metric for comparing costs across land administration entities with land management responsibilities within the State of Utah. For lands to be transferred to the State under the Transfer of Public Lands Act, we estimate the total per annum cost to the State of Utah. Using the US GAO’s 1997 report Land Ownership: Similarities and Differences in the Management of Selected State and Federal Land Units (GAO/RCED-97-158) as a template for our metrics, we have gathered data from the major land administrating entities in the State of Utah to determine cost per acre and, where applicable, cost per visitor. All entities except the Bureau of Land Management have delivered data, and upon receipt of data from the Bureau of Land Management cost estimations will be forwarded as an amendment to this study.
Date Published: 2/6/2013
Annotated Bibliography Free Market Environmentalism
Date Published: 12/28/2012
Articles Citing Lewis' Analyze the Impact of Public Land management on Wage Growth Rates in the Northern Rain Forest Region
Date Published: 8/10/2010
Barriers to Participation? Factors Associated with the Choice of Presidential Selection Processes
Date Published: 7/1/2011
Boon or Bust: Wilderness Designation and Local Economies
Date Published: 4/30/2012
Carbon Tax
Date Published: 1/1/2013
Carbon Tax?
Most economists prefer a tax to regulation, and for those seeking to decarbonize the US economy a Pigouvian carbon tax is an attractive policy prescription. A non-romantic view of a carbon tax is consistent with Pigou’s largely forgotten warning that such a tax is “a potential opportunity” for self interest to trump the general interest. Congress may pass a carbon tax but it will have less to do with carbon reduction and more to do with redistributing income, exempting favorite companies, and making promises that future congresses will not keep.
Date Published: 1/16/2013
Chris Stewart OpEd
Date Published: 6/27/2012
Chris Stewart OpEd
Date Published: 6/27/2012
Climate Policy as Political Entrepreneurship
Date Published: 11/29/2012
CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Competing claims about the economic value of public lands to local communities abound. Officials from the outdoor recreation industry, for example, claim that protecting lands from multiple uses such as motorized and even pedal-powered recreation and oil, gas, and mineral extraction is "really truly about jobs"(Prettyman 2012). A hunting and fishing group, Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development, commissioned a study that examined the relationship between economic security and public land management strategies. The study's authors concluded that in rural counties in the Rocky Mountain West "as the proportion of conservation/recreation lands declines, so do indicators of economic health and growth" (Southwick 2012, 19). By contrast, we find that wilderness and public lands, in general, negatively impacts local economic conditions.
Date Published: 12/31/2012
Conservation and Economic Growth
Date Published: 1/3/2013
Costs of Land Administration in Utah
Date Published: 10/1/2012
CRS Report Summaries
Date Published: 4/18/2013
Economic Impacts of Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance Litigation on Local Commnities
Date Published: 8/27/2013
Economic Impacts of WildEarth Guardians Litigation on Local Communities
Date Published: 3/1/2012
Economic Liberty
Date Published: 5/9/2013
Economic Liberty
Date Published: 5/9/2013
Energy In National Monuments
Date Published: 8/23/2013
Environmental Ballot Measures and their Effects
Date Published: 3/14/2012
Green Entrepreneurship
Date Published: 5/9/2013
Green Revenue? Local Governments and Wilderness Designation
There has been a lack of consensus among authors on the effects Wilderness Lands have on local economies, the environment, and the counties in which they reside. The goal of our research was to provide an analysis on the missing pieces of the research. To this point, there was no analysis done specifically on the effects Wilderness Lands have on local government tax revenue. Through our two-part test, we found that sales and property taxes in counties with Wilderness Lands are higher than those that do not have the presence of Wilderness Lands. However we also found that expenditures in counties with Wilderness Lands are more than expenditure costs in counties without Wilderness Lands.
Date Published: 6/30/2012
Green Revenue? Local Governments and Wilderness Designation
Date Published: 5/3/2013
Green vs. Green Brief: Biofuels
Date Published: 3/11/2013
Green vs. Green Briefs: Geothermal
Date Published: 3/11/2013
Green vs. Green Briefs: Hydroelectric Energy
Date Published: 3/11/2013
Green vs. Green Briefs: Oil Shale & Orion vs. Salazar
Date Published: 3/11/2013
Green vs. Green Briefs: Solar Power Summary
Date Published: 3/11/2013
Green vs. Green Briefs: The Politics of Need
Date Published: 3/11/2013
Green vs. Green Briefs: Wind Power Summary
Date Published: 3/11/2013
Green vs. Green Heritage
Date Published: 5/16/2012
Green vs. Green Op Ed
Date Published: 10/11/2012
Green vs. Green Op Ed
Date Published: 10/11/2012
Green vs. Green: The Political, Legal, and Administrative Pitfalls Facing Green Energy Production
Date Published: 9/12/2012
Insurance Mandate Impact Statement
Date Published: 2/16/2012
Micro-Hydro
Date Published: 1/11/2013
NEPA: Death by Bureaucratic Assessments
Date Published: 9/14/2010
Obama Monuments
Date Published: 11/2/2012
Politics, Economics, and Federal Land Designation: Assess the Economic Impact of Land Protection- Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Date Published: 12/19/2011
Public Choice and Public Life
Date Published: 10/4/2010
Public Lands and Political, Economic, and Social Structure of Rural Western Counties
Date Published: 12/17/2012
Quality of Life Brief
Date Published: 1/14/2013
Quality of Life: Building and Index
Date Published: 1/14/2013
Renewable Energy Siting and Transmission Resource
Date Published: 4/8/2012
Roadless Rule Brief: State of Wyoming v. United States Department of Agriculture
Date Published: 10/24/2011
The Case of the White Moustache
Date Published: 9/4/2012
The Local Impact of Wilderness: An Overtime Analysis of Wilderness Designation
Date Published: 4/2/2010
The Price of Government if Cache County's Cities and Towns
Date Published: 5/1/2008
Utah's Medical Program Eligibility HB174
Date Published: 3/1/2012
Western States Public Lands Survey finds "Problems" are not that big of a deal
Date Published: 5/9/2013