Conservation Entity Aims to Fight Wildfires by Fixing Bad Laws

Conservation Entity Aims to Fight Wildfires by Fixing Bad Laws
Firefighters walk past backfire, flames lit by firefighters to burn off vegetation, while battling the Mosquito Fire in the Volcanoville community of El Dorado County, Calif., on Sept. 9, 2022. Noah Berger/AP Photo
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A new conservation law and policy center aims to promote good stewardship of the land without compromising private landowners’ property rights, including by cutting red tape to lower the risk of wildfires.

The center, founded by the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), intends to drive collaboration, and not the sort of conservation that “pits people against each other” through endless litigation, Jonathan Wood, PERC’s legal director, told The Epoch Times in a Sept. 22 interview.

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Nathan Worcester is an award-winning journalist for The Epoch Times based in Washington, D.C. He frequently covers Capitol Hill, elections, and the ideas that shape our times. He has also written about energy and the environment. Nathan can be reached at [email protected]
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