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The Larch Company, L.L.C

If you are careful, your life can be deductible.

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© George Wuerthner Old-growth western larch, Larix occidentalis

What It Is

What It Does

The Name

What It Is

The Larch Company is a for-profit, non-membership conservation organization that represents species who cannot talk and the human generations to come. Legally, it is a limited liability company under Oregon law, which gives an entity the protections that corporations get without having to hold that damn annual meeting and do as much paperwork. I wholly own the Larch Company. My official title is "Czar."

What It Does

The Larch Company carries out conservation projects (see Current Projects and Future Projects).

These projects are either:

• paid for by clients;
• done on speculation (someday maybe I'll get paid to do more of what I've been doing); or,
• pro bono ("for the public good").

Of course, in my opinion, all are for the public good. Some goods just pay better than others or in different ways than financial remuneration.

I offer consulting, write books, and am available for public speaking .

To diversify its revenues, The Larch Company has gone into the electric power business. Now the Larch Company has two profit centers: The Electric Power Division and the Political Power Division.

My accountant says, "if you're careful, your life can be deductible." Since I spend most of my time doing conservation projects, my expenses are deductible (is this a great country, or what!?).The Larch Company has been turning a profit, and using the Paul Newman model of capitalism: all profits go to charity. Unlike Paul Newman, I neither give away as much money nor accept requests.

The Name

"Andy Kerr and Associates" just wouldn't do, so I formed The Larch Company.

I chose the name because:

1. The western larch has a contrary nature as a deciduous conifer.
   
   
2. It's also a very pretty tree, especially as it turns golden in the fall in preparation for losing its needles. Click here for another pretty picture.

I didn't consider this at the time, but it works for me:

"Kerr runs the Larch Co., an environmental consulting firm named after a tree that thrives on scorched earth."

Andy Kerr wages war on growth, by Michelle Cole, The Oregonian, Sunday June 4, 2000 page 1.

For the natural history of the western larch, click here.