Andy Kerr - Curriculum Vitae of Writer and Environmentalist

Advising the Soda Mountain Wilderness Council on ending livestock grazing within the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
Directing National Public Lands Grazing Campaign to enact a program to buy out federal grazing permits.
Consulting for the Oregon Natural Resources Council to enact legislation furthering the goals of conservation, restoration, wilderness and old-growth forests in the Klamath River Basin.
Independent power provider through generation of photovoltaic electricity.

Consulted for The Wilderness Society to protect the Steens-Alvord area in southeast Oregon.
Advised the Siskiyou Project on the proposed Siskiyou Wild Rivers National Monument.
Consulted for A Coalition for the Klamath Basin (through The Wilderness Society) to develop a strategic campaign plan.
Founded Alternatives to Growth Oregon

Consulting on:	Non-Profit Organization Tax Status and Political Action
	NGO Operation (Management, Organization, Fundraising)
	Environmental Program and Issue Analysis
	Campaign Development, Strategy and Implementation
	Foundation Giving
	Foundation and High-Donor Fundraising
	Industrial Hemp
	Forest Conservation
	Desert and Grassland Conservation

Public Speaking on:	Environmental Issues	Environmental Movement
	Environmental Politics	Industrial Hemp
	Population & Consumption	Growth (Population & Consumption)
	Forest Conservation	Pacific Salmon Conservation
	Desert Conservation

Work Experience

The Larch Company	1996-present

Oregon Natural	1994-1996 Executive Director
Resources Council	1983-1994 Conservation Director
	1976-1982 Field Representative

"Retired" as executive director of the Oregon Natural Resources Council (ONRC Fund, ONRC Action, ONRC Action Federal PAC and ONRC Action State PAC), founded in 1974 and focused on the wise management of Oregon's lands, waters, and natural resources. ONRC represents more than 7,000 individual members and maintains offices in Portland, Eugene, Bend and Brookings. ONRC is best known for raising the Pacific Northwest's last ancient forest to a national spotlight and for its work to save salmon runs and to protect municipal drinking water supplies from clearcutting.

Education

Creswell High School, 1973 graduate.
Intern (1976) for Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG) (Analyzing Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Review).
Oregon State University, 1976 dropout (dabbled in forestry, political science, economics, history and beer).

What Others Say

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."

The Village Voice called Kerr the "state's leading environmentalist."

In a feature on Mr. Kerr, Time 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."

Jim Geisinger, president of The Northwest Forestry Association said, "I think he's largely accomplished his agenda. He's been a very active participant in destroying the part of the forest products industry that's been dependent on federal timber supply."

The Oregonian named Kerr one of the 150 most interesting Oregonians in the newspaper's 150-year history.

High Country News ranks Kerr "among the fiercest and most successful environmentalists."

Rocky Barker of the Idaho Statesman said, “There were a lot of environmentalists working to stop logging on old growth national forests in the 1980s and 1990s. But few were more outspoken and effective than Andy Kerr.”

Lectures and Honors

Lifetime Achievement Award from Oregon Natural Resources Council, 2004
Lectured or spoke at most of Oregon's colleges and universities, Whitman College, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and Yale University.
Spoke at University of Oregon Law School, Lewis and Clark College Northwestern School of Law and McGeorge School of Law.
Participated, by personal invitation of President Clinton, in the Northwest Forest Conference held in Portland in 1993 for which Willamette Week gave Kerr a "No Surrender Award."
Certificate of Appreciation from the Native Plant Society of Oregon, 1987.
Certificate of Conservation Achievement from the National Wildlife Federation, 1989
Hung in effigy (at least twice).
Death threats (lost count).

Featured

On all major network evening news and morning programs. Featured in Time, Pacific Northwest (former supplement to The Sunday Oregonian), Business Journal. Interview in USA Today. Profiled in The Oregonian.
A major character is based on Kerr in the play In the Heart of the Woods, a play by Todd Jefferson Moore, which has been performed throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Question #2, Card 123, Only Oregon Trivia (second generation, 1985-1992): "Andy Kerr is most closely associated with what environmental cause?" Answer: "Saving surviving stands of ancient forests." (If one cannot be immortalized, next best is trivialized.)
Andy Kerr wages war on growth: The environmentalist who fought old-growth logging is battling a rise in population by Michele Cole, Sunday Oregonian, June 4, 2000.

Books Featuring Kerr

Chase, Alston. 1995. In A Dark Wood. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Cone, Joseph. 1994. A Common Fate: Endangered Salmon and the People of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Henry Hold and Company.

Dietrich, William. 1992. The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Durbin, Kathie. 1996. Tree Huggers: Victory, Defeat and Renewal in the Northwest Ancient Forest Campaign. Seattle: The Mountaineers Books.

Egan, Timothy. 1998. Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Marsh, Kevin R. 2007. Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Seideman, David. 1993. Showdown At Opal Creek: The Battle for America's Last Wilderness. New York: Carrol and Graf.

Zakin, Susan. 1993. Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement. New York: Viking.

Books Quoting or Mentioning Kerr

Allen, Leslie. 2002. Wildlands of the West: The Story of the Bureau of Land Management. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society.

Arnold, Ron and Alan Gottlieb. 1994. Trashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking America. Bellevue, Washington: Free Enterprise Press.

Arnold, Ron. 1997. EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature. Bellevue, Washington: Free Enterprise Press.

Arnold, Ron. 1999. Undue Influence: Wealthy Foundations, Grant-Driven Environmental Groups, and Zealous Bureaucrats That Control Your Future: Bellevue, WA: Free Enterprise Press.

Buchal, James L. 1998. The Great Salmon Hoax: An Eyewitness Account of the Collapse of Science and Law and the Triumph of Politics in Salmon Recovery. Aurora, Oregon: Iconoclast Publishing Company.

Cannavò, Peter F. 2007. The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Connelly, Mike. 2001. ONRC, Go Home: A Rancher Speaks Out to Environmentalists about Community and the Land in Brick, Philip, Donald Snow and Sarah van De Wetering. Across the Great Divide: Explorations in Collaborative Conservation and the American West. Washington, DC: Island Press.

DeLuca, Kevin Michael. 1999. Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism. New York: Guilford Press.

Duffy, Robert J. 2003. The Green Agenda in American Politics: New Strategies for the 21st Century. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.

Findley, Rowe, Robert Madden (also photographer), Mark Miller, Cynthia Russ Ramsay and Bill Richards. 1982. America's Spectacular Northwest. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society.

Foreman, Dave. 1991. Confessions of an Eco-Warrior. New York: Crown Publishers.

Foreman, Dave. 2004. Rewilding North America: A Vision for Conservation in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: Island Press

Goodman, Jordan and Vivien Walsh. 2001. The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug. Cambridge, United Kingom: Cambridge University Press.

Harden, Blaine. 1996. A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Helvarg, David. 1994. The War Against the Greens: The "Wise Use" Movement, The New Right and Anti-Environmental Violence. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Hoberg, George. 2001. The Emerging Triumph of Ecosystem Management: The Transformation of Federal Forest Policy in Davis, Charles (editor). Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press

Mowrey, Marc and Tim Redmond. 1993. Not in Your Backyard: The People and Events That Shaped America's Modern Environmental Movement. New York: William Morrow and Company.

Noss, Reed and Allen Y. Cooperrider. 1994. Saving Nature's Legacy: Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity. Washington, DC: Defenders of Wildlife. (not in index, page 220).

Pendley, William Perry. Washington, DC. 1995. War on the West: Government Tyranny on America's Great Frontier. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing.

Pyle, Robert Michael. 1995. Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Reisbsame, William (editor). 1997. Atlas of the New West: A Portrait of a Changing Region. Boulder: University of Colorado.

Robinson, Rowan. 1996. The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World's Most Extraordinary Plant.

Ronald, Ann. 2006. Oh, Give Me a Home: Western Contemplations. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.

Roth, Dennis. 1995. The Wilderness Movement and the National Forests. College Station, Texas: Intaglio Press.

Rowell, Andrew. 1996. Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environmental Movement. London and New York: Routledge.

Safina, Carl. 1997. Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Sagoff, Mark. 2004. Price, Principle and the Environment. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

Stennett, Edwin. 2002. In Growth We Trust: Sprawl, Smart Growth, and Rapid Population Growth. Gaithersburg, Maryland: Growth Education Movement.

Stout, Benjamin B. 2003. The Northern Spotted Owl: An Oregon View— 1975–2002. Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford Publishing.

Taylor III, Joseph E. 1999. Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Tokar, Brian. 1997. Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash. Boston: South End Press.

White, Richard. 1996. Are You and Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living? In Cronon, William (editor). Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.

Williams, Ted. 2007. Something's Fishy: An Angler's Look at Our Distressed Gamefish and Their Waters—and How We Can Preserve Both. New York: Skyhorse Publishing.

Wittbecker, Alan. 2006. Good Forestry From Good Theories and Good Practices: Essays on Ecological Forestry & Ecological Design. Sarasota, Florida: Cambridge Books and Uranaia Science Press.

Wittbecker, Alan. 2006. Reviewing, Rethinking, Returning: Essays on Live, Ecology and Design. Sarasota, Florida: Cambridge Books and Uranaia Science Press.

Yaffe, Steven Lewis. 1994. The Wisdom of the Spotted Owl: Policy Lessons for a New Century. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Other Media Featuring or Mentioning Kerr

Moore, Todd Jefferson. 1994. "In the Heart of the Wood: A Docudrama." Seattle: Rain City Projects. Performed in Seattle, Tacoma and Ashland.

Public Service Activities

Former Board Affiliations	Friends of Opal Creek
	Oregon League of Conservation Voters
	The Coast Alliance
	Alternatives to Growth Oregon

Present Board Affiliations	North American Industrial Hemp Council

Advisory Boards	Population Coalition

Director	National Public Lands Grazing Campaign

Official Office	Notary Public, State of Oregon, 1983-1999

Personal

A fifth generation Oregonian, Kerr was born and raised in Creswell (a recovered timber town in the upper Willamette Valley). He lives in Ashland (a recovered timber town in the upper Rogue Valley). Married to Nancy Peterson since 1984, they are childfree and live with two dogs, one cat and one horse. In his free time, Kerr likes to canoe, hike, raft, read, and work on projects that move their home toward energy self-sufficiency.

Published

Ashland Daily Tidings, BioScience, Cascade Cattleman, Cascadia Times, Different Drummer, Earthwatch Oregon, Eugene Weekly, Forest Magazine, Forest Planning, Forest Watch Magazine, Greenlight, High Country News, Home Power, Not Man Apart, Oregon's Future, Oregonian, Oregon Times, Oregon's Future, Penn State Environmental Law Review, Range Magazine, Rangelands Journal, Seriatim, The Source, UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, Watershed Messenger, Wild Oregon, Wild Earth, Wild Forest Review (see below).

Numerous opinion pieces in most of Oregon's daily newspapers (some noted below).
Formerly a columnist for the Wallowa County Chieftain. (collected in columns section)
Oregon Desert Guide: 70 Hikes (The Mountaineers Books, Seattle, 2000)
Oregon Wild: Endangered Forest Wilderness (published by Oregon Natural Resources Council, distributed by Timber Press)

Bibliography

(More articles have been published, but I didn't keep track.)

Dean, Myrla and Andy Kerr. 1976. Politics Heats up Desert. Oregon Times Magazine. December/January (1977).

Kerr, Andy. 1978. Changes in the Desert Wind. Seriatim. Vol. 2, No. 2. Spring. 66-67.

Kerr, Andy. 1978. Jewels in the Old Cascades. Seriatim. Vol. 2, No. 1. Winter. 38-39.

Kerr, Andy. 1978. The Wilderness Review Program of the Bureau of Land Management in Oregon. (Part One). Portland: OSPIRG. 87 pages.

Kerr, Andy. 1978. The Wilderness Review Program of the Bureau of Land Management in Oregon. (Part Two). Portland: OSPIRG. 40 pages.

Kerr, Andy. 1980. Hard choices in the political arena. Earthwatch Oregon. November/December.

Kerr, Andy. 1980. Last Stand for Oregon's Coast Range. Not Man Apart. Vol. 10, No. 1. January. 7.

Kerr, Andy. 1980. Timber and Wilderness: The Environmental Challenge. Forest Planning. July. 3

Kerr, Andy. 1981. After The Smoke Has Cleared. Earthwatch Oregon. September/October. 5.

Kerr, Andy. 1981. The Best Laid Plans. Earthwatch Oregon. July/August. 23.

Kerr, Andy. 1983. In my opinion: Crossroads approaching for Oregon. The Oregonian. February 11.

Kerr, Andy (text attributed to Oregon Natural Resources Council). 1991. If you think your national forests look like this.... Washington, DC: The Wilderness Society. 44 pages.

Kerr, Andy. 1993. 7 Degrees of Separation in the Forest Conservation Movement. Wild Forest Review. December. 27-29.

Kerr, Andy. 1993. Get the BLM Out of Western Oregon. 1993. Forest Watch. Vol. 13, No. 10. June. 12-14.

Kerr, Andy. 1994. ONRC's executive director outlines 100-year plan for state. The Oregonian. September 11. S5.

Kerr, Andy. 1994. Don't try to improve livestock grazing; abolish it! High Country News. Vol. 26, No. 11. June 13. 15.

Kerr, Andy. 1994. Hemp to Save Forests. Wild Earth. Vol. 4, No. 2. Summer. 54-55.

Kerr, Andy. 1994. Whining and Weyerhaeuser: Managing a Winning Legal Campaign for Northwest Forests. Wild Forest Review. June. 24-25.

Kerr, Andy. 1995. Civil Disobedience for the Forest: The Time for Direct Action has Come Again. Wild Forest Review. April. 14-15.

Kerr, Andy. 1995. Conservationists Conceive Cow Cops. Wild Earth Vol. 5, No. 3. Fall. 57-78

Kerr, Andy. 1995. It's Not Either/Or; It's All or Nothing. Wild Earth. Vol. 5, No. 1. Spring. 42-44.

Kerr, Andy. 1995. The Browning of Bob Packwood. Cascadia Times. Vol. 1, No. 6. 8-9.

Kerr, Andy. 1995. Viewpoint: Ecosystem management must include the most human of factors. BioScience. Vol. 45, No. 6. 378

Kerr, Andy. 1995. Who Burned Hemp? Greenlight. Vol. 6. No. 4. August. 1.

Kerr, Andy. 1997. A proposal to expand the market in federal public land grazing permits. Cascade Cattleman. Vol. 9, No. 12. December 3.

Kerr, Andy. 1997. Growth Not Good for Most Oregonians. Oregon's Future. Vol. 1, No. 2. Spring. 14-16.

Kerr, Andy. 1998. Expanding the Market for Grazing Permits. Different Drummer. No. 13. 45-53.

Kerr, Andy. 1998. The Voluntary Retirement Option for Federal Public Land Grazing Permittees. Rangelands. Vol. 20, No. 5. October. 26-30.

Kerr, Andy. 1998. The Voluntary Retirement Option for Federal Public Land Grazing Permittees. Wild Earth. Vol. 8, No. 3. Fall. 63-67

Kerr, Andy. 1998. Volunteerism Alone Won't Save the Planet. Cascadia Times. September. 17.

Kerr, Andy. 1999. Big Wild: A Legislative Vehicle for Conserving and Restoring Wildlands in the United States. Wild Earth. Vol. 9, No. 4. Winter 1999-2000. 77-86.

Kerr, Andy. 2000. Bend Over Bend: Wasting Away in Labendmondville. The Source. April 5-12. 7.

Kerr, Andy. 2000. Commentary: Ashford, Medland or something else. Ashland Daily Tidings. May 4

Kerr, Andy. 2000. Endless Growth or the End of Growth. Portland: Alternatives to Growth Oregon. 18 pages.

Kerr, Andy. 2000. Exceptional Experts: It's Not Either/Or, It's All or Nothing. (From Vol. 5, Num. 1, Spring 1995). Wild Earth Vol. 10, No. 4. Winter 2000/2001. 24

Kerr, Andy. 2000. Oregon Desert Guide: 70 Hikes. Seattle: The Mountaineers. 272 pp.

Kerr, Andy. 2000. Twenty-Five Actions to End Growth in Oregon. Portland: Alternatives to Growth Oregon. 11 pages.

Kerr, Andy. 2000. Federal Recreation Fees: The Lesser of Two Evils. Cascadia Times. Vol. 4, No.10.

Kerr, Andy. 2001. Changes on the Siuslaw. Forest Magazine. March/April. 46.

Kerr, Andy. 2001. Dirty Air: It's everyone's problem. Ashland Daily Tidings. March 12. 4.

Kerr, Andy. 2001. Doing Well While Doing Good: Conservation of Energy as Rational Financial Investment. Home Power. No. 86. December 2001-January 2002. 96-103.

Kerr, Andy. 2001. Reducing Your Emissions Doesn't Result in Cleaner Air. Cascadia Times. Vol. 5, No. 6. March-April.

Kerr, Andy. 2001. Toyota Prius: Ready for Prime Time. Home Power. No. 85. October-November. 64-69.

Kerr, Andy. 2002. Federal Recreation Fees: The Lesser of Two Evils. Wild Earth. Summer. Vol. 12, No. 2. 68-70

Kerr, Andy. 2002. Subsidized Federal Grazing Won't Prevent Sprawl. Watershed Messenger. Vol. IX, No. 2. Summer. 9.

Kerr, Andy. 2002. The Lesser of Two Evils. Wild Earth. Summer. Vol. 12, No. 2. 68-70.

Kerr, Andy. 2003. Which Way?: Mountain Biking in Wilderness. Wild Earth. Spring. Vol. 13, No. 1. 26-30.

Kerr, Andy. 2004. Mergers, Acquisitions, Diversifications, Restructurings,and/or Die-Offs in the Conservation Movement. Wild Earth. Spring/Summer. Vol. 14, No. 1/2. 44-51.

Kerr, Andy. 2004. Grid-Tied Solar in Small Town, USA. Home Power. June & July. No. 101. 24-31

Kerr, Andy. 2004. Mixing Business & Pleasure. Home Power. June & July. No. 101, 34-36

Kerr, Andy. 2005. On Eating Meat. Pages 674-681 in Cheryl Glenn. Making Sense: A Real-World Rhetorical Reader (2nd ed.) Bedford/St. Martins. Boston, MA.

Kerr, Andy. 2006. The Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act of 2000 (Oregon) in Collaborative Conservation Strategies: Legislative Case Studies from Across the West. Western Governors' Association, Denver, CO.

Kerr, Andy. 2006. "The Ultimate Firefight: Changing Hearts and Minds." (Note: this is a double-page spread, so scroll sideways to read the complete article.) Pages 273-277 in Wuerthner, George (ed). Wild Fire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. Island Press. Washington, DC.

Kerr, Andy. 2007. Making PV Pay: It's Just Good Business Sense. Home Power. February & March. No. 117, 74-79.

Kerr, Andy. 2007. Making Sense (and Dollars) of Solar Hot Air Collectors. Home Power. April & May. No. 118, 98-102.

Kerr, Andy. 2008. Killing Trees to Save Forests. Bryan Potter Design Decadal Report. Portland, Oregon.

Kerr, Andy and Rick Brown. 1997. The Bottom Line on Option 9. Wild Earth. Vol. 7, No. 2. Summer. 31-34.

Kerr, Andy and Sally Cross. 1996. Let's Get Political. Wild Earth. Vol. 6, No. 1. Spring. 72-74.

Kerr, Andy and Sally Cross. 1998. Successfully Using Ballot Measures. Wild Earth. Vol. 8, No. 1. Spring. 72-75.

Kerr, Andy and Glenn Juday, Dick Taug, Paul Alaback, Sherry Wellborn and Mike Bohannon. 1977. A Proposed Drift Creek Watershed Management Plan. Corvallis: Siuslaw Task Force.

Kerr, Andy and Mark Salvo. 2000. Review of "The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Diversity" Wild Earth. 10, No. 2. Summer. 102.

Kerr, Andy and Mark Salvo. 2000. Livestock Grazing in the National Park and Wilderness Preservation Systems. Wild Earth. Vol. 10, No. 2. Summer. 53-56.

Kerr, Andy and Mark Salvo. 2001. Evolving Presidential Policy Toward Livestock Grazing in National Monuments. Penn State Environmental Law Review. Vol. 10, No. 1. Fall. 1-12.

Kerr, Andy and Mark Salvo. 2001. Bureau of Land Management National Conservation Areas: Legitimate Conservation or Satan's Spawn? UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy. Vol. 20, No. 1. 67-77.

Kerr, Andy and Mark Salvo. 2002. Livestock Grazing in the National Park and Wilderness Preservation Systems. Range Magazine. Vol. X, No. 1. Spring. 62-63.

Kerr, A. and M. N. Salvo. 2002. Pillaged preserves: livestock in national parks and wilderness areas. Pages 47-49 in G. Wuerthner and M. Matteson (eds.). Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West. Island Press. Covelo, CA.

Kerr, Andy and Mark Salvo. 2007. Managing Western Juniper to Restore Sagebrush Steppe and Quaking Aspen Stands. Chandler, AZ: Sagebrush Sea Campaign.

Salvo, Mark and Andy Kerr. 2000. Congress Designates First Livestock-free Wilderness Area. Wild Earth. Vol. 10, Num. 4. Winter 2000/2001. 55.

Salvo, Mark and Andy Kerr. 2001. Permits For Cash: A Fair and Equitable Resolution to the Public Land Range War. Rangelands. Vol. 23, No. 1. 22-24

Salvo, Mark and Andy Kerr. 2001. The National Public Lands Grazing Campaign. Wild Earth. Fall-Winter 2001-2002. Vol. 11. No. 3/4. 83-85

Salvo, Mark and Andy Kerr. 2002. Livestock Grazing in the National Park and Wilderness Preservation Systems. Range Magazine. Vol. X, No. 1. Spring. 62-63.