If the Audubon Society owned the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, would it still oppose oil drilling there? More than once, private ownership of natural resources has given environmental groups a strong incentive to balance conservation with commercial development.

Dwight R. Lee is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Affiliated Visiting Faculty Fellow in the Institute for the Study of Political Economy in the Miller College of Business at Ball State University.
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