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Dedicated to the conservation and restoration of nature, The Larch Company is a non-membership for-profit organization that represents species that cannot talk and humans not yet born. A deciduous conifer, the western larch has a contrary nature.

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Retiring Grazing Permits, Part 2: History of the Voluntary Retirement Option

September 12, 2023 in Bureau of Land Management, Congress, Department of Interior, Federal Lands, Fish and Wildlife Service, Legislation, Livestock Grazing, Presidents

Retiring Grazing Permits, Part 2: History of the Voluntary Retirement Option

The history of congressional and other actions to facilitate retirement of federal grazing permits

Tags: voluntary federal grazing permit retirement, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Wilderness Act, Biden Administration, Wilderness Act history, Blue Range Wilderness, Gila National Forest, Barry Reiswig, Conservation Fund, Taylor Grazing Act, Capitol Reef National Park, Juniper Butte Bombing Range, Mojave Desert Tortoise, Great Basin National Park, Back Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area, Steens Mountain, Big Jacks Creek Wilderness, Bureau-Jarbridge Rivers Wilderness, Little Jacks Creek Wilderness, North Fork Owyhee Wilderness, Owyhee River Wilderness, Pole Creek Wilderness, Harry Ried, Ron Wyden, Gordon Smith, Greg Walden, Mike Crapo, Earl Blumenauer, Peter DeFazio, Mike Simpson, California Desert Conservation Area, Oregon Caves National Preserve, President Trump, President Biden, President George W. Bush, Bears Ears National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, President Clinton, President Obama, Aspen Range, Caribou National Forest, Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni—Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, Sagebrush Habitat Conservation Fund, National Wildlife Federation, Grand Canyon Trust, Property and Environment Research Center

Leave It to Beavers: Good for the Climate, Ecosystems, Watersheds, Ratepayers, and Taxpayers (Part 1)

June 29, 2018 in Wildlife, Watersheds, Livestock Grazing, Ecosystems, Climate Change

Leave It to Beavers: Good for the Climate, Ecosystems, Watersheds, Ratepayers, and Taxpayers (Part 1)

Beavers, by damming streams and creating wetlands, greatly enrich their ecosystem and watershed far out of proportion to their numbers.

Tags: Beaver, WildEarth Guardians, Grand Canyon Trust, The Lands Council, beaver dams

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A ~1,000-word weekly exposition on some aspect of federal or state public lands in the United States. Some blog posts goes rather deep and serve as a useful (I hope) backgrounders on particular public land areas, matters or issues. Other weeks, you’ll find a topical piece addressing a public lands controversy of the moment. This blog not only defends, but also extols, public lands.

Andy Kerr of The Larch Company (www.andykerr.net) splits his time between Ashland, OR and Washington, DC. He has been significantly involved in the enactment of more than 25 pieces of federal and state legislation and in copious litigation pertaining to public lands. Dedicated to the conservation and restoration of nature, The Larch Company is a non-membership for-profit organization that represents species that cannot talk and humans not yet born. A deciduous conifer, the western larch has a contrary nature.

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