Andy Kerr

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

Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail

Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument: Safe from Big Timber, Threatened by the BLM

Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument: Safe from Big Timber, Threatened by the BLM

Big Timber’s and Addicted Counties’ supreme gambits to gut the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument have failed, but the monument is still in mortal peril from the Bureau of Land Management.

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Blumenauer’s REC Act of 2022: A Wreck for Conservation

Blumenauer’s REC Act of 2022: A Wreck for Conservation

Blumenauer’s bill would open up Mount Hood National Forest to new logging loopholes.

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Go Take a Hike: The National Trails System at Fifty

Go Take a Hike: The National Trails System at Fifty

In 1965, in a message to Congress, President Lyndon Johnson said, “We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we need to copy the great Appalachian Trail in all parts of America.”

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