EP 145: Wildlife, Property Rights, and Conservation

Hunt Talk Radio

Randy Newberg

Sports, Education, Wilderness, How To

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 147 minutes

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In this Episode (145) of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy shares the mic with Brian Yablonski, CEO of Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), the founders and leading voices in Free Market Environmentalism. Topics covered include wildlife migrations and conserving those corridors, public wildlife needing private land, conservation incentives on private land, Yellowstone elk, disease costs and liabilities, better public land management needed for wildlife, North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, conserving wild fish stocks, and many other topics where public and wildlife benefit from working with conservation-minded private land stewards.

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0:00.0	Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whatever it is when you're listening to this folks.
0:05.0	Randy Noberg here and I'm getting ready to do another episode of Looopold Tuntuck Radio.
0:10.7	And this time we have a guy who I've known now, I think, for four or five years ever since he
0:16.5	moved to Bozeman and took over his current job as CEO. Brian Yablonsky is a former, I think he's
0:26.1	going to tell us this, but 14, 15 years, something like that. Commission Chair, even for the Florida
0:34.5	Wildlife Commission. Then took a job here in Montana as the CEO of a group called the
0:43.7	Acronymus Perk, P-E-R-C, and it stands for Property and Environment Research Center.
0:50.8	And they are a think tank of economists and scientists and others who try to figure out how to use
1:00.8	property right and the markets. Back when they started 40 years ago, the term that was
1:07.6	drawn at it was free market environmentalism. And I've known most of the people that Brian
1:17.0	succeeded in his position, I knew his predecessors. One of the things about Bozeman is that it has
1:25.2	some of those think tanks and so he gets some pretty well-known prolific writers, scholars,
1:32.7	and I've had the benefit for the last 25 years of, I'll say jousting because they're great people.
1:41.3	And they bring perspectives that a lot of times I hadn't thought about. And I will say that my now
1:51.6	tendency to lean towards free market environmentalism for some of our issues, not all, but some,
1:59.3	can be attributed to my years of interaction with the folks at Perk. And so I'm really thankful that
2:06.8	Brian is here and we're going to talk about, we're going to use a small example about one of the
2:12.0	nation's most cherished outcards, the northern Yellowstone herd here that migrates from Yellowstone
2:18.7	Park north into Montana into what we call the Paradise Valley. It's where the Yellowstone River
2:25.3	flows out of the park and runs north to Livingston. It is home to that Yellowstone herd and
2:32.6	the success, the longevity, the health of that herd, along with the other herds in Yellowstone,
2:42.4	are the core of the wildlife interest, the wildlife community of Yellowstone Park.
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