12 Facts About Randal O'Toole

Randal O'Toole was born on 1952 and is an American public policy analyst.

The majority of Randal O'Toole's work has focused on public lands, land-use regulation, and transportation, particularly light rail.

Randal O'Toole was the McCluskey Visiting Fellowship for Conservation at Yale University in 1998, and has served as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and Utah State University (2000).

Randal O'Toole studied economics at the University of Oregon, but did not receive a degree.

Early in his career, Randal O'Toole worked with environmental groups to oppose the United States Forest Service's subsidized sales of public forest timber to the timber industry.

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Randal O'Toole's book Reforming the Forest Service built on his experience during this effort, and proposed a number of free-market solutions to management of U S public land and timber.

Randal O'Toole has written analyses of the usage and development plans of a number of U S national forests, working with state environmental agencies and other groups.

Randal O'Toole contends that these development strategies—in which regulatory measures and tax incentives are employed to encourage denser development, more efficient land use, and greater use of public transportation—ignore the desires and preferences of most housing consumers and ultimately waste public funds.

Randal O'Toole has campaigned against smart growth policies and light rail systems in several U S states as well as in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Ottawa, Ontario.

Randal O'Toole continues to advocate for free market solutions to urban planning and design in his writing and teaching.

Randal O'Toole has written four books published by the Cato Institute.

Randal O'Toole moved from Bandon, Oregon to Camp Sherman, Oregon, where he runs the "Thoreau Institute.