Barry Asmus, who died March 30, 2020, studied at Montana State University, where he was mentored by economists at PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center. He picked up his appreciation of the free market from them (Richard Stroup was his thesis adviser). While Barry didn’t enter the environmental field, he became an advocate for the free market.
The New Resource Economics and the Environment
Using Private Property, Economic Incentives, and Markets to Solve Environmental Problems. Please do take the time to read through the PDF document below for more details.