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John Baden's Columns
Pete
Geddes' Columns Books
An American Summer - August 12, 2009
A Tribute to Rick Stroup - December 06, 2006 Winning the Lottery - July 13, 2005 Stegner, Students, and the Future of the Northern Plains - July 09, 2003 Eagle Mount’s Social Entrepreneurship - June 25, 2003
The guiding principles of environmental reason - May 31, 1995 Sifting through manure for a wise energy policy - May 24, 1995 Whales and threatened fishing cultures - April 19, 1995
Free Lunch Money? - February 13, 2008 Made In... - November 07, 2007 A Farm Tale to Remember - May 09, 2007
Rethinking the “War on Terror” - August 02, 2006
Bozeman’s Growing Pains - September 07, 2005 Where the Rubber Meets the Righteous - July 27, 2005 Anything but Grenades - June 22, 2005
The Geography of Open Space - November 12, 2003
A New Look at the Old Way - February 05, 2003
Bidding Bozeman a Fond Farewell - November 08, 2006 Zoning Out Options - June 28, 2006 Exploiting Poverty to Help the Poor - April 12, 2006 How Competition Helped My Honeymoon - February 08, 2006 Crime, Punishment, and Economics - August 10, 2005 Entrepreneurship and Social Change - July 20, 2005 Growth, Globalization, and the Environment - May 18, 2005 Protecting the Poor from Climate Change - February 23, 2005 Growth, Open Space, and Tradeoffs - October 20, 2004 Reconciling Boomers and Nesters to Conserve the West - September 22, 2004 The Folly of Federally Subsidized Insurance - June 30, 2004 Helping the Poor Help Themselves - June 09, 2004 Freedom and Responsibility - May 12, 2004 Social Problems and the State - March 24, 2004 The Road Not Taken - February 18, 2004 The Market for Culture - October 22, 2003 Corporate Exploitation Through Government Coercion - September 17, 2003 Self-Sufficiency the Route to Poverty - July 16, 2003 Great Pains for the Great Plains? - June 11, 2003 Iraq's Hope - May 07, 2003 The Risk of Excessive Caution - March 19, 2003 Buses for Bozeman? - February 19, 2003 Pirating Good Intentions - December 18, 2002 Resiliency Is the Key to Climate Change - November 13, 2002 Free Trade Helps the World's Poor - October 02, 2002 The Failure of Federal Research - August 14, 2002 Bioprospecting in Yellowstone - July 31, 2002 Balancing Rights and Regulations - June 26, 2002 Farm Bill Is One Expensive Civics Lesson - May 15, 2002 Learning to Play Ball - May 08, 2002
The Importance of Social Trust - July 07, 2010
Interest Groups Warm to Global Warming - July 25, 2007
Regional transit: learning the hard lessons of WPPSS - May 10, 1995 Whoops: an expensive, valuable history lesson - April 12, 1995
Looking for a Bill Gates of environmental policy - June 09, 1993 Prosperity and environmental quality go hand in hand - May 11, 1993 Drug-price controls would hurt, not help, consumers - April 27, 1993 Letting markets help the environment - April 13, 1993 Property protection and property rights in harmony - March 30, 1993 Food-additive law based on emotion, not science - March 16, 1993 Harnessing the predatory power of the bureaucracy - March 02, 1993 A way to encourage environmental entrepreneurship - February 16, 1993 The Forest Service is long overdue for an overhaul - February 09, 1993 Recreation user fees would level the playing field - February 02, 1993 Pork-barrel economics thwart Forest Service reform - January 26, 1993 Faulty incentives prevent Forest Service reform - January 19, 1993 New range wars and the grazing-fee dilemma - December 22, 1992 We Should Learn From Alaska's Big, Bad Wolf Mistake - December 08, 1992 Matching environmental talk, economic reality - November 24, 1992 A win-win approach toward a new shade of green - November 10, 1992 Quayle and Gore on the Environmental Fringes - October 09, 1992 Free-Trade Pact Links Prosperity and Environment - September 28, 1992 Montana's Wolf Experiment: Carrots and Carnivores - July 22, 1992
Preserving the environment and a vital economy - January 05, 1993
Health Alert: Free the Children - July 21, 2010
Confronting Mad Cows and Other Risks - January 28, 2004
Studying Abroad in Montana - August 29, 2001
The One Percent Solution? - April 18, 2007 Choice to the People! - April 19, 2006 The Gallatin Valley: Fatal Attraction? - February 15, 2006 Entrepreneurs Save Native Fish - April 06, 2005 Keeping Community Ski Areas Affordable - February 16, 2005 Making Snowmobiles Safe for Yellowstone - May 05, 2004
Mines Remove More Than Mountaintops - November 14, 2007
The Costs of Wal-Mart - August 16, 2006
Good Trust, Bad Trust - July 11, 2007
Environmentalism as Religion - May 16, 2007 Wallace Stegner Writing Contest - January 08, 2003 Judge Dave and the Rainbow Family - July 10, 2002 Lessons in a Supermarket - February 01, 1989
Red, White, Blue... and Green? - July 09, 2008
Crossing Tribal Boundaries - November 23, 2005 A Case for Balanced Reporting - June 15, 2005 Celebrate PERC’s 25th - June 01, 2005
Saving Commercial Fisheries - July 01, 1997 Migrating Species - June 16, 1997 This Predator Eats Pork, Saves Dough - June 05, 1997 Using 'Green Scissors' to Cut Government Waste - April 02, 1997 The Failure of America's Sylvan Socialism - February 05, 1997 Cowboys of the Old West Need to Clean up Their Act - January 22, 1997 Economics Help for Santa - December 22, 1996 Liberating National Parks from Political Dependency - December 11, 1996 Democracies Don't Fight-- Except Over Fish - November 27, 1996 A Green Campaign Speech for a Better Environment - November 13, 1996 Environmentalism Needs A Free Press - October 30, 1996 Clinton's "Green Decrees": Easy Answers Postpone Reform - October 16, 1996 Avoid Political Extinction with A New Shade of Green - October 02, 1996 Using a Green Thumb to Hitch an Internet Ride - September 18, 1996 Entrepreneurs Harmonize Economies with Ecology - September 04, 1996 Conquest of the Columbia Carried Tremendous Costs - August 21, 1996 Finding Defenses Against Parasitic Bureaucracies - August 07, 1996 Al Gore's Newest Horror Story - July 31, 1996 Park Lovers Can Save National Parks - July 10, 1996 The Evolving Environmentalism - July 01, 1996 Flying Blind or Running Scared? - July 01, 1996 Effective environmentalism uses a new shade of green - June 26, 1996 Wildlands: salvation through decentralization - June 12, 1996 The predictable perversities of bureaucratic behavior - May 29, 1996 Marking the End of an Era of Crisis Entrepreneurship - May 02, 1996 The Political Pathways to a New Shade of Green - April 17, 1996 Thirst for Private Water Suppliers Grows - April 03, 1996 Promoting Dialogue, Vision For A New West - March 27, 1996 Westerners, Wolves, Politics and Shifting Cultural Plates - March 13, 1996 More subsidies in the age of corruption entitlements - February 28, 1996 Economic health of fisher key to health of the fishery - February 14, 1996 Forest amenities in Thunder Mountains - January 31, 1996 Perverse Consequences (P.C.) of the Nanny State - January 17, 1996 A market-incentive gift for inner-city brownfields - December 20, 1995 The common Pathologies of overfishing - December 06, 1995 Diversity and harmony merge in the marketplace - November 22, 1995 Hunters play an active role in protecting the environment - November 08, 1995 The adverse consequences of the ESA - October 25, 1995
Earth Day: charting the next 25 years - April 26, 1995 Rail-transit fixation vs. a cheaper fix - March 01, 1995 Beltway greens undercut worthy ecological goals - February 15, 1995 Hunting plays a key role in habitat conservation - February 01, 1995 Keep politicians from ruining our parks - January 18, 1995 A gift for the critters: end predator-control program - December 21, 1994 Recognizing real heroes of free-market principles - November 30, 1994 What price must the salmon pay to keep power rates low - November 23, 1994 Greens now pay the price for the excesses of success - November 10, 1994 Quotas give individuals incentive to fish wisely - November 02, 1994 Risk analysis can further environmental objectives - October 19, 1994 Understanding the failings of socialist economic model - October 05, 1994 EPA's toxic avengers push caution to dangerous level - September 21, 1994 Ban on log exports won't save jobs, environment - June 08, 1994 Private log-export ban a deeply flawed policy - June 01, 1994 Surveying the damage brings tears of sorrow - May 18, 1994 The anti-chlorine chorus is hitting some bum notes - May 04, 1994 America's Earth Day supergift: Siberia - April 20, 1994 Gun control may work, but you may not like it - April 06, 1994 The global warming myth and its selfish defenders - March 23, 1994 Free-market forces favor public good, not privilege - March 09, 1994 Rural electrification: time to end subsidies for skiers - February 23, 1994 Making matters worse despite good intentions - February 09, 1994 Long-term disaster aid: more harm than good - January 26, 1994 Gore's intentions sound, but his solutions aren't - January 12, 1994 Selfish interests threaten the 'Century of Biology' - December 15, 1993 Environmental tradeoffs: riding the learning curve - December 01, 1993 Creating positive rewards for species preservation - October 20, 1993 A radical proposal to bail out Smokey: privatization - May 25, 1993
The Costs of Growth - May 25, 2005
Judge Not by the Appearance ... the Truth Shall Make You F.R.E.E. - November 05, 2003
We Have Been Here Before - October 10, 2007
Moderation, Not Polarization - August 09, 2006
Big Sugar’s Sugar Daddy - July 06, 2005 A Case for Balanced Reporting - June 15, 2005 The Merits of Medical Marijuana - September 15, 2004
Testimony on FREE - May 11, 2005 It’s Hot. But Is This the Greenhouse? - September 24, 2003
Trust and Consequences - September 04, 2002
Why Big Skies Require Smaller Paychecks - August 04, 2004
The Benefits of Thinking Economically - September 12, 2007
100 Years of Forest Service Ineptitude - October 01, 1997
Rural Towns Don’t Have to Dry Up and Blow Away - July 07, 2004
Is Wal-Mart Worth It? - August 16, 2006
A Political Snow Job - July 18, 2001 Woodland homeowners replicate 'Barrier Island Pathology' - October 11, 2000 Open Space Bond Will Help Preserve Our State's Values - September 27, 2000
Exploring Our Nuclear Potential - April 27, 2005
Roadless Land the Capital the New West Depends Upon - April 19, 2000
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