Andy Kerr

Conservationist, Writer, Analyst, Operative, Agitator, Strategist, Tactitian, Schmoozer, Raconteur

Mount Hood National Recreation Area

Blumenauer’s REC Act of 2022: A Wreck for Conservation

September 05, 2022 in Congress, Federal Lands, Forest Service, Forests, Legislation, National Forest System, National Trails System, Wild and Scenic Rivers, Wilderness, Wildfire

Blumenauer’s bill would open up Mount Hood National Forest to new logging loopholes.

Senator Ron Wyden and National Recreation Areas: How Large a Legacy?

February 11, 2022 in Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, National Recreation Area

Top Line: Oregon’s senior senator is poised to leave a legacy of national recreation areas. Just how many and how good that legacy will be is up to him.

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A fortnightly exposition on some aspect of federal or state public lands in the United States. Some posts goes rather deep and serve as a useful (I hope) backgrounders on particular public land areas, matters or issues. Other fortnights, 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 Hancock, ME. 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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