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The Center for Applied Research, Inc. was founded in 1990 with a singular purpose: to bring rigorous economic analysis to bear on the complex resource and land use questions facing the western United States. From our earliest days, we have been committed to objective, credible work that holds up to scrutiny in the most demanding venues - from regulatory proceedings to federal agency reviews.
Over the decades, we have built a recognized track record of providing economic and valuation expertise to a wide range of clients, including private industry, government agencies at all levels, non-profit organizations, and American Indian Tribes.
Among our most significant and longstanding areas of practice is our work on behalf of American Indian Tribes. The Center has been a trusted economic advisor to tribal nations across the western United States for more than three decades, providing land valuation, resource compensation analysis, and expert analysis at the federal level. Our analyses have helped tribal clients secure fair compensation for the use of their lands and resources, and our work has been recognized before federal agencies responsible for upholding the federal government's trust responsibilities to Native nations.
"Since 1990, our practice has been built on the belief that sound economics and state-of-the-art analytical modeling can produce fair, defensible results for all parties - whether in negotiation, litigation, or public policy."
Our multidisciplinary team has grown to include mathematicians, economists, sociologists, engineers, appraisers, environmental scientists, lawyers, and anthropologists - all working toward the same goal: producing analysis that is technically sound, legally defensible, and practically useful.
Today, the Center continues to serve clients across the energy, tourism, agriculture, recreation, and federal land management sectors, building on a foundation of more than three decades of applied economic practice. It is at the forefront of trending the West's future, using population forecasting tools and employing demography, migration, energy consumption, land valuation, tax revenue receipts, and other indices of economic growth and change.
The hallmark of our work has always been that it would be non-biased. Objectivity is our goal, reinforced through the use of an applied theoretical framework. Economics is the revealing core in all of our work.
The mission of the Center for Applied Research, Inc. is to provide objective, high-quality economic analysis and consulting services that help our clients make informed decisions, negotiate fair outcomes, and achieve sound results in complex economic and legal environments.
"Economics in Action — applying rigorous economic science to real-world problems in energy, land use, recreation, and resource management."
The Center is a client focused organization where maintenance of reponsive, durable relationships with clients is of paramount importance. The Center's products and consultant services are tailored to the specific needs of clients and always reflect an understanding of the legal, financial, and political environment in which each client operates. Work at the Center reflects a special interest in reconciling the pursuit of private interests with public policy goals and objectives.
A particular focus of our mission is serving American Indian Tribes with the same rigor and independence we bring to all our work. We recognize the unique legal and economic circumstances of tribal nations, and we are committed to providing analysis that supports the fair treatment of tribal rights in resource valuation, compensation proceedings, and federal policy. Our tribal work is not incidental to our practice — it is central to it.
We are guided by the following core principles:
We serve private industry, government, and non-profit organizations throughout the United States, with a particular focus on western U.S. economic policies related to energy, land use, recreation, and resource management. Our work with American Indian Tribes on land valuation and resource compensation is among our most important and longstanding areas of practice.
