Andy Kerr

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

US Supreme Court

Utah’s Existential Threat to Most BLM Holdings

September 30, 2024 in Bureau of Land Management, Congress, Federal Lands, LItigation, Nat'l Conservation Lands, Public Land Law

Utah’s lawsuit against the United States is an existential threat to more than 200 million acres of federal public lands.

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

April 27, 2024 in Antiquities Act, Bureau of Land Management, Counties & Federal Lands, Federal Lands, LItigation, National Monuments, National Park System, National Park Service, Presidents

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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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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