Forests for the people
by Allan Stewart/Miles Saltiel 1996
Over the last eighty years the national forest policy has been a complete failure and the Forestry Commission is to blame. There has been no return on investment, no commercial value and worst has failed to deliver on any of its objectives. The authors claim that the public forest estate should be freed from government constraints and protection. The woodlands should be returned gratis to the residents of the communities of which they could then become part.
Adam Smith Institute

Private Conservation and Black Rhinos in Zimbabwe
by Michael de Alessi 2000
How Zimbabwe succeeded in saving the black rhinoceros (which declined by 95% between 1970 and 1994) thanks to private property of land and wildlife.
Center for Private Conservation

An Economic Guide to State Wildlife Management
by Dean Lueck 2000
The increase in private wildlife management, coupled with the recent trend toward more nongame management (often associated with more general funding), will have important effects. The paper suggests that over the (possibly distant) horizon looms a regime in which nongame wildlife becomes the responsibility of state agencies while game is largely left to private landowners.
Political Economy Research Center

The Price We Pay
by Holly Lippke Fretwell 2003
With the right incentives our federal land management agencies could be a source of wealth to all Americans, not the burden that we have allowed them to become.
Political Economy Research Center