Andy Kerr

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

WildEarth Guardians

The Demise of Northwest Forest Plan

March 16, 2025 in Bureau of Land Management, Ecological Reserves, Federal Lands, Forest Service, National Forest System, Presidents

Like bankruptcy, the death of the Northwest Forest Plan has proceeded slowly and might end quickly.

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

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

Public Lands Blog

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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.

If you wish to contact me, I will probably be glad you did.