Why Conservation Is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground

A concerned activist takes the conservation movement to task and shows us what we stand to gain when conservation succeeds

Critics of environmental laws complain that such rules often burden people unequally, restrict individual liberty, and undercut private property rights. In formulating responses to these criticisms, the conservation effort has stumbled badly, says Eric T. Freyfogle in this thought-provoking book. Conservationists and environmentalists haven’t done their intellectual hom...