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Nope (As National Parks Visits Surge, Booz Allen Benefits):  Visitors driving into Montana’s Glacier National Park this summer must buy a vehicle pass on Recreation.gov. The pass is free, but visitors pay a $2 fee to book the reservation. Visitors might assume

Here is the abstract from the paper which is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Education: Economic theories of the exploitation of depletable natural resources are built around a core model of intertemporal profit maximization that predicts that (barring unforeseen shocks)

For years I have railed about the need to get the price of driving right (too many posts to find and link, but here's a good one). Why, oh, why I cry, do we still keep finding needlessly complicated ways

Or, at least salmon are doomed. From the NY Times (California Salmon Stocks Are Crashing. A Fishing Ban Looks Certain): This week, officials are expected to shut down all commercial and recreational salmon fishing off California for 2023. Much will be

From the NYTimes (In Surprise, OPEC Plus Announces Cut in Oil Production): Saudi Arabia, Russia and their oil-producing allies announced on Sunday that they would cut production by more than 1.2 million barrels of crude a day, or more than 1

From the local paper (Hatchery supported trout waters to open April 1): The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will open approximately 1,000 miles of Hatchery Supported Trout Waters at 7 a.m. on April 1. The season will run through Feb. 29, 2024. The

The editor of Marine Resource Economics is also on this list. Are there any other editors that you'd think might get a pass or turn down most every referee request? I wonder how many papers these folks review for other

He'll be presenting "Cooperation under oath: A case for context-dependent preferences" (with Joao Vaz) at 2 pm today (the link to the paper isn't working but I've sent an email to try to get it fixed). Here is the "research

Important new discussion paper from a star-studded cast of environmental and resource economists*

Here is the link and story: Partha Dasgupta is a Cambridge University economist who in 2021 prepared a more than 600-page report for the British government about the financial value of nature. Not your average bedtime reading. But believe us when we say