Legal and Economic Issues in Private Land Conservation

摘要

We would like to thank those who have supported the completion of this volume. Comments from participants at PERC's Forum, Private Land Conservation: Institution and Instruments, in Big Sky, Montana, helped to refine the ideas presented herein. In addition to the authors of this volume, forum participants included legal scholars Thomas Merrill and Rob Natelson; economists Richard Stroup, Walter Thurman, and Myles Watts; and land trust practitioners Andrew Dana and William Long. For helping to coordinate the forum, we thank Monica Lane Guenther and Colleen Lane. Finally, this project was made possible by the generous financial support of the Maytag Family Foundation and the Dunn Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking. We thank them for investing in this research and hope that these ideas generate tangible results in the form of sustainable institutions and instruments for voluntary conservation of private land.