Andy Kerr

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

Endangered Species

Welcoming Back Pumas to the Eastern United States

Welcoming Back Pumas to the Eastern United States

Scientists have identified seventeen areas in the eastern US suitable for the recolonization of Puma concolor. Will humans allow it?

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The Unmaking of the Northwest Forest Plan, Part 2: Remaking It for the Next Quarter Century

The Unmaking of the Northwest Forest Plan, Part 2: Remaking It for the Next Quarter Century

The prospective defeminization/emasculation of the Northwest Forest Plan by the Forest Service is likely inevitable. All the more reason for the Biden administration to promulgate an enduring administrative rule that conserves and restores mature and old-growth forests.

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The Unmaking of the Northwest Forest Plan, Part 1: Out with Enforceable Substance and in with Performative Process

The Unmaking of the Northwest Forest Plan, Part 1: Out with Enforceable Substance and in with Performative Process

The world’s largest ecosystem management plan is under existential threat.

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Retiring Grazing Permits, Part 1: Context and Case for the Voluntary Retirement Option

Retiring Grazing Permits, Part 1: Context and Case for the Voluntary Retirement Option

The option to voluntarily retire federal grazing permits is progressing, albeit in fits and starts.

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Forests in the American East, Part 3: A Vision of the Return of Old-Growth Forests

Forests in the American East, Part 3: A Vision of the Return of Old-Growth Forests

This Part 3 suggests ways to partially—but significantly—bring back the magnificent old-growth forests that have long been lost.

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Book Review: Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public Lands

Book Review: Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public Lands

Understanding the history of public lands is useful if one is to be the best advocate for the conservation of public lands.

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Offshore Oregon Could Be Despoiled by Wind Power Turbines

Offshore Oregon Could Be Despoiled by Wind Power Turbines

We don’t have to despoil the environment and view off the shore of Oregon to produce carbon-free electricity.

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Biden’s Bait and Switch

Biden’s Bait and Switch

Unfortunately, “America the Beautiful” represents a gross dereliction of the duty of the Biden administration to future generations.

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Oregon State Forest Lands, Part 1: A New Day?

Oregon State Forest Lands, Part 1: A New Day?

The seven-member Oregon Board of Forestry will decide next Tuesday, October 6, whether to proceed in seeking a habitat management plan and concurrent incidental take permit for sixteen imperiled species that inhabit western Oregon state forests.

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Udall-Heinrich Bill Would Emasculate the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

Udall-Heinrich Bill Would Emasculate the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

Legislation introduced by New Mexico’s two Democratic US senators would severely undermine the integrity of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

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