Department of Resource Economics

FEATURED FACULTY
Kimberly Rollins, PhD

Interest: natural resource economics, environmental economics and policy analysis, wildfire, invasive species, wildlife and society, environmental valuation, resource conservation and management.

 

 
Wild Horse
FEATURED RESEARCH
Wild Horse and Burro Marketing Study

 

With an increasing population and economic activity in rural Nevada, conflicts between rural Nevada residents and wild horses and burros have become evident. The primary objective of this project is to determine which characteristics of wild horses and burros increase adoption rates and investigate alternative auction procedures which could increase adoption rates and simultaneously increase revenues to government agencies.  Read More...

 

Thomas Harris, Department of Resource Economics