Andy Kerr

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

Watersheds

Protecting Drinking Water Sources, Part 2: Suggestions for Improvement

Protecting Drinking Water Sources, Part 2: Suggestions for Improvement

Municipal and community surface drinking water supplies need to be protected from logging, grazing, roading, and other development.

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Protecting Drinking Water Sources, Part 1: Water Quantity, Quality, and Timely Release

Protecting Drinking Water Sources, Part 1: Water Quantity, Quality, and Timely Release

Most Americans get their drinking, bathing, and flushing water from surface sources, most of which are unprotected from logging and other exploitation.

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The Westerman Bill: The Timber Industry’s Wet Dream

The Westerman Bill: The Timber Industry’s Wet Dream

Who wouldn’t want “resilient” (“able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions”) forests? With the name Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017 (H.R.2936, 115th Congress), what could possibly be wrong with this bill?

Everything. Judge neither a book by its cover nor a bill by its name.

Introduced by Representative Bruce Westerman (R-4th-AR), the bill is the timber industry’s wet dream legislation. In only his second term in Congress, Westerman has received more campaign contributions from Big Timber than any other industry.

The Westerman bill would legislate horrifically harmful public forest policy into law. 

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Why Public Lands

Public lands provide society with goods and services that the private sector is unable to provide.

America’s best idea, national parks—including its highest refinement, wilderness—is contingent on the underlying lands being in public ownership. So are somewhat lower—but nonetheless quite beneficial—refinements such as wild and scenic rivers, national monuments, national recreation areas, national wildlife refuges, national conservation areas, national trails and other specially designated areas.

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