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What Others Have Said About Andy Kerr For his participation, by personal invitation of President Clinton, in the Northwest Forest Conference held in Portland in 1993 Willamette Week gave Kerr a "No Surrender Award." Time reporter David Seideman, in his book Showdown at Opal Creek, described Kerr as the "Ralph Nader of the old-growth-preservation movement." Jonathan Nicholas of The Oregonian characterized Kerr as one of the "Top 10 people to take to (the) Portland bank" for "his gift of truth." The Oregonian's Northwest Magazine characterized him as the timber industry's "most hated man in Oregon." The Lake County Examiner called Kerr "Oregon's version of the Anti-Christ." In a feature on Mr. Kerr, Time magazine titled him a "White Collar Terrorist," referring to his effectiveness in working within the system and striking fear in the hearts of those who exploit Oregon's natural environment. The Christian Science Monitor characterized Kerr as "one of the toughest environmental professionals in the Pacific Northwest." Willamette Week said Kerr "is entirely unwilling to give an inch when it comes to this state's remaining old-growth timber. In his book Lasso the Wind, New York Times correspondent Tim Egan said of Kerr, "(h)e has a talent for speaking in such loaded sound bites that it was said by reporters that if Andy Kerr did not exist, someone would have to invent him....(Kerr) forced some of the most powerful timber companies to retreat from a binge of clear-cutting that had left large sections of the Oregon Cascades naked of forest cover." From a profile in The Oregonian, "In the 1980s and 1990s he was a much-decorated officer in the conservation movement's war with the timber industry—with the outcome that logging in the past decade declined by more than 80 percent on Oregon and Washington public lands." The Oregonian named Kerr one of the 150 most interesting Oregonians in the newspapers 150-year history. The Salt Lake Tribune described Kerr as "part provocateur and part policy wonk . . . Kerr . . . has long been a bur in the side of the cattle industry." Here are different versions of Andy Kerr's biographical, customized for: • Director of the National Public Lands Grazing Campaign • Czar of The Larch Company; or • Board member and treasurer of the North American Industrial Hemp Council. They didn't have Latin when I went to Creswell High School, but I've none the less jotted down, or recollected, my course of life. Convenience, far more than vanity, necessitates these pictures. They are intended for downloading for publications that desire them. To minimize potentially offensive use, permission for publication or reproduction by any means, print or electronic, now or hereafter invented, must be obtained before using these images. Permission may be requested by e-mailing Andy Kerr. Click Here to go to
Photo Page Click here for the May 2000 front-page (ok, below the fold, but with pictures!) profile on myself. |