Archive for category: Conservative Conservationism
Crunchy Con Manifesto Redux

By Brent Fewell Over the years, I’ve grown to appreciate Rod Dreher’s contributions to environmental discourse and advancing the...
“Nudging” versus “Coercion” – Balancing Environmental Protection with Liberty and Freedom

The recent controversy over the U.S. Government’s increased proclivity to secretly paw through the electronic communications and telephone records of Americans has...
States are stepping up on the environment because of (or in spite of) Trump . . .

In December 2016, after Trump’s election and Scott Pruitt was nominated to be the next EPA Administrator, I made...
Teddy Roosevelt’s Army or Edmund Burke’s Little Platoon?

Very proud of Benji Backer and his college friends who are storming the land and Washington DC to persuade...
Happy Earth Day! “Bah Humbug!” You Say

Earth Day is upon us again – in all its splendor and glory. It is indeed the largest secular...
Lynn Scarlett, Prominent Voice on Environment, Invited to White House to Promote Infrastructure

Kudos to President Trump and the White House for bringing greater attention to the issue of that nation’s infrastructure,...
Scott Pruitt is the Next EPA Administrator – Now What!?

Scott Pruitt, former Attorney General for Oklahoma, was confirmed today as EPA’s Administrator, on a Senate vote of 52-46....
The Case for Conservative Environmentalism – What is Possible in a Trump Administration

Whether one calls it environmental conservatism or conservative environmentalism, I had the honor of participating in the Hoover Institution’s...
To My Environmental Friends – Give President-Elect Trump a Chance

To many of my environmentalist friends, this past week could not have gone any worse. It’s their worst...
Conservative Environmentalism – Roundtable with Roger Scruton

For all those in DC who are interested in this topic, you should consider attending the following forum sponsored...
Can EPA and Other Feds Lead by Getting Out of the Way?

Jim Huffman has a thoughtful article in the most recent issue of the PERC Reports titled Designing Institutions for...
Fix our Parks and Preserve our Youth

Reed Watson and Scott Wilson of the Property and Environmental Research Center (PERC) wrote a thoughtful article for the...
Meet the Earth Stewardship Alliance – a reawakening of conservative principles on the environment

I want to introduce the readers of this blog to a new organization that is worth getting to know. ...
The Death of a Fishery and a Coastal Community it Supported

I’ve reported previously on the precipitous decline of the cod fishery along the coast of Maine, here Tragedy of the...
Link Between Declining Wildlife Populations and Social Ills

A fascinating, although not surprising, article in this week’s edition of The New Yorker titled Spare the Rod, School...
Humanity’s Relationship with the Natural World

Noted ecologist Daniel Botkin provides a remarkable description of the natural phenomenon which is also the title of his...
The Plight of the American Prairie

Our colleague here at Conservefewell, Laura Huggins, has taken a new position as the Manager of Economic Initiatives with...
Natural Infrastructure for Safe and Clean Water

The World Resources Institute recently released an exciting and very useful report on Natural Infrastructure: Investing in Forested Landscapes...
Celebrating Aldo Leopold’s 127th Birthday

Aldo Leopold is considered an icon of the environmental movement―primarily for his call for a heightened environmental consciousness in...
The Graduate, 2014: Chemistry on the Rise

In the iconic 1960’s era movie “The Graduate,” a young Dustin Hoffman is given one-word career advice: Plastics. In...
Conservation, Markets, Ethics

While we strive to craft new approaches to conservation and environmental protection, with the goal of reconciling personal liberty,...
Contemplating a Conservative Response to Climate Change

Wanted to bring attention to a new blog, The Climate Conservative, the brainchild of David Jenkins and Rob Sisson,...
Human Carrying Capacity – Fanciful Fiction or Deadly Reality

One of the first courses I took in college toward my degree in wildlife management was a population dynamics class. ...
Our National Treasures – Was Secretary Watt Correct?

By Brent Fewell Interesting article in American Spectator this week by Robert Smith titled, An Environmentalist Deception, wherein Smith...
Death Panel Proposed for Pandas

By Brent Fewell Interesting and thought-provoking article this week by Tim Lavin over at Bloomberg titled “Why I Hate Pandas...
Some GOP Propose Taxing Carbon Not Income to Mitigate Climate Change

By Brent Fewell Art Laffer, former Reagan economic advisor, and Bob Inglis, former GOP Congressman from South Carolina, discuss...
Nature – an abstraction to far too many

By Brent Fewell Author and ecologist, Daniel Botkin, in his new book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, offers an...
Enduring Wildlife Conservation is About Conserving Human Livelihood

By Brent Fewell So often, we hear stories of wildlife extinction or near extinction due to imbalances created by habitat encroachment or insatiable...
Conservation 2.0 – regulations alone won’t fix a broken earth

By Brent Fewell I spent some quality time this week in the wonderful city of Cincinnati, home of the...
Conservatives – or at least one nervous House staffer – call for GOP to lead Climate Debate

By Brent Fewell Am posting a thoughtful article by an anonymous House GOP staffer, writing under the pseudonym, Eric...
China – A Growing Threat to the Earth

Listened to a sobering interview yesterday on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show, with Craig Simons, author of the new book, The Devouring Dragon, which...
Funny Wildlife Footage

By Brent Fewell Saving the planet can be really heavy and heady stuff at times – so, occasionally it’s...
Reagan’s Conservation Legacy – still timely and relevant today

By Brent Fewell Eli Lehrer has a great piece today in The Blaze on the conservation legacy of President...
Crunchy Con is Back – GOP break out your Birkenstocks

Thank you to Robert Costa over at NRO for this week resurrecting the term Crunchy Con. Ever since Rod Dreher left NRO,...
Changing the Dialogue, Economics and Cultural Valuation of Species Protection

Props to Todd Gartner, of the World Resources Institute, and Laura Huggins, of the Property and Environmental Research Center, for joining efforts...
Emerging Markets are Helping Accelerate Environmental Restoration

Spent several days this week in Racine, WI, at the Johnson Foundation’s Wingspread, which the H.J. Johnson Family (think SC Johnson...
Busy as a bee, unless you have CCD

By Brent Fewell Linking to a report over at ConservAmerica regarding the recent collapse of bee colonies here in...
What is the Best Antidote to Environmental Irrationality?

The material well-being of a democratic society depends on its ability to rationally manage a nearly limitless variety of...
Student Conservation Association – helping promote environmental stewardship

For those budding conservationists in high school or college in the U.S., or those with just a passing curiosity...
The Face of Conservation is Changing – Cheers to Today’s New Leaders

By Brent Fewell The pros and cons of living in Washington DC are receiving all sorts of invitations to political...
My Infinitesimally Small Contribution to Earth Day

By Brent Fewell Inspired earlier this month by the conservation work of Chris Bayley out in Oregon, and his...
The GOP’s Environmental Challenge

By Brent Fewell Can one be a social conservative or member of the GOP and be an environmentalist? Although I’ve long...
Platoons for Conservation and the Healing Power of Water

By Brent Fewell Attended an awesomely moving tribute last evening to our Nation’s veterans. This marks the third year that...
Red Snapper and Dynamite Don’t Mix – Fish Policy 101

By Brent Fewell The family and I were watching the national news the other night and saw this undercover video about major...
The Bureaucratization of Environmentalism – can we survive good intentions?

Calling all Good Samaritans

We all know the parable told by Jesus regarding the sojourner who was robbed, pillaged, and left to die...
Nature’s Resilience – Chesapeake Bay and Signs of Hope

By Brent Fewell Promising news flowing from the Chesapeake Bay. U.S. EPA is reporting that pollutants, such as phosphorous,...
Tragedy of the Commons Strikes Again

By Brent Fewell We each have them, those childhood experiences that shape our life perspective and canvas our memories of youth. ...
Conservatives Promote Environmental Stewardship

By Brent Fewell Great discussion today in DC sponsored by the Conservation Leadership Council – carried by C-SPAN – on...
Excerpts from Edmund Burke in “A Vindication of Natural Society” in 1756 and his cautionary observation of man’s potential destructive forces on...
My new year’s wish – for less politics and more credible voices!

By Brent Fewell My friend, Larry Schwieger of National Wildlife Federation, tweeted out his new year’s wish, “for a...
A Case for Environmental Conservatism

Are conservatives better able to handle environmental problems? A re-post of a June 2012 lecture by Roger Scruton of...
Why Conservatives Should and do Care About the Environment

By Brent Fewell What can be more conservative than the impulse to protect and conserve earth’s natural resources, air,...
fast food, packaging, pets, urban sprawl, and other things which can be rectified only slowly and only through a concerted effort of education."
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