Andy Kerr

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

US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

O&C Lands Act, Part 2: The Decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

O&C Lands Act, Part 2: The Decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

By letting stand two federal appeals court decisions, the US Supreme Court dealt a body blow—fatal, we can hope—to the Clearcut Conspiracy’s fantasy of holtz über alles (“timber above everything else”) on ~2.1 million acres of federal public forestland in western Oregon.

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Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument: Safe from Big Timber, Threatened by the BLM

Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument: Safe from Big Timber, Threatened by the BLM

Big Timber’s and Addicted Counties’ supreme gambits to gut the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument have failed, but the monument is still in mortal peril from the Bureau of Land Management.

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