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Conserving Nature by Conserving Liberty
In a newly released article, The Heritage Foundation offers the following eight principles for conservation: People are the most important, unique, and precious resource. Renewable natural resources,...
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Society’s “little platoons” for conservation
I’ve just finished a new book that is a must read for the political right (and for those on the political left who may be interested in what conservatives think about environmental issues). Roger...
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Tragedy of the Commons Strikes Again
We each have them, those childhood experiences that shape our life perspective and canvas our memories of youth. Mine was spending summers in Maine. I still feel it as though it were yesterday, that...
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Nature’s Resilience – Chesapeake Bay and Signs of Hope
Promising news flowing from the Chesapeake Bay. U.S. EPA is reporting that pollutants, such as phosphorous, nitrogen, and sediment, entering the Bay have fallen significantly since 2009. And the Bay...
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Calling all Good Samaritans
We all know the parable told by Jesus regarding the sojourner who was robbed, pillaged, and left to die along his journey to Jericho. While some passed him by – because they did not bother to care or...
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The Bureaucratization of Environmentalism – can we survive good intentions?
Sarah Palin has her bridge to nowhere story. This is my story of the bridge to somewhere – a 24 foot 11 inch bridge that spans a beautiful little perennial creek that bisects my neighborhood into...
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Red Snapper and Dynamite Don’t Mix – Fish Policy 101
The family and I were watching the national news the other night and saw this undercover video about major fish kills of red snapper (hundreds of thousands of pounds) and other ocean life as a result...
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Platoons for Conservation and the Healing Power of Water
Attended an awesomely moving tribute last evening to our Nation’s veterans. This marks the third year that Trout Unlimited has held an annual dinner, A Salute to Service, in honor of our Nation’s...
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The GOP’s Environmental Challenge
Can one be a social conservative or member of the GOP and be an environmentalist? Although I’ve long argued what I believe to be the fundamental distinction between being an environmentalist and a...
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Young Conservative Minds – Environmental Gloom, Doom, or Hope?
Kids say (and think) the darndest things. This weekend, my youngest daughter, Macy, and I had a great discussion on civics. Turns out she and her classmates are doing the perennial assignment of...
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My Infinitesimally Small Contribution to Earth Day
Inspired earlier this month by the conservation work of Chris Bayley out in Oregon, and his 12,000 rain garden campaign to improve water quality in Puget Sound, as discussed here, I finally committed...
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Nature’s Simple Beauties
“There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.” ― Aldo Leopold Seek out and enjoy nature’s beauty and wild things around you. Don Wagner’s wildlife and landscape photography...
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Society’s “little platoons” for conservation
I’ve just finished a new book that is a must read for the political right (and for those on the political left who may be interested in what conservatives think about environmental issues). Roger...
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The Face of Conservation is Changing – Cheers to Today’s New Leaders
The pros and cons of living in Washington DC are you receive all sorts of invitations to political events, fundraisers, forums, policy roundtables, and various other sundry functions, all aimed at...
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Student Conservation Association – helping promote environmental stewardship
For those budding conservationists in high school or college in the U.S., or those with just a passing curiosity in the topic, I highlight an organization that helped to shape my interest and career in...
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What is the Best Antidote to Environmental Irrationality?
The material well-being of a democratic society depends on its ability to rationally manage a nearly limitless variety of often competing risks. - Dan Kahan, 2006 Environmental rationality of course....
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Busy as a bee, unless you have CCD
Linking to a report over at ConservAmerica regarding the recent collapse of bee colonies here in the U.S. The cause is still not clear but, since 2006, over 25 percent of domestic colonies have died...
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Thoughtful Reflections on the Environment by a Conservative Thinker – An...
I had the pleasure this week of sitting down with the English philosopher, Roger Scruton, to discuss his new book, How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for Environmental Conservatism. It...
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Emerging Markets are Helping Accelerate Environmental Restoration
Spent several days this week in Racine, WI, at the Johnson Foundation’s Wingspread, which the H.J. Johnson Family (think SC Johnson Wax) has set aside to convene environmental leaders to think and go...
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Changing the Dialogue, Economics and Cultural Valuation of Species Protection
Props to Todd Gartner, of the World Resources Institute, and Laura Huggins, of the Property and Environmental Research Center, for joining efforts to promote innovative new ways to protect threatened...
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