Andy Kerr

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

Siuslaw National Forest

A North Oregon Coast Range National Park: Sorely Needed but a Hell of a Long Shot

A North Oregon Coast Range National Park: Sorely Needed but a Hell of a Long Shot

Crown Zellerbach timber executive: “We knew in the 1950s we had to log it then, or it would be a national park by now.”

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Privatizing Federal Public Lands in Western Oregon

Privatizing Federal Public Lands in Western Oregon

In its recently revised resource management plans for western Oregon, the Bureau of Land Management has identified 290 parcels of federal public lands, ranging in size from 0.01 to 440.2 acres and totaling 18,458.95 acres, as suitable for disposal. Although disposing of 0.7 percent of the approximately 2,600,000 acres of western Oregon BLM public lands may not seem like a big deal, many of these parcels have high public values.

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