Andy Kerr

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

US District of Columbia Court of Appeals

O&C Lands Act, Part 3: The Decision of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

May 27, 2024 in Bureau of Land Management, Courts, Department of Interior, Federal Lands, Forestry, LItigation, Watersheds

BLM lands in western Oregon are special in fact, but not in law. The Clearcut’s Conspiracy’s gambit to exalt the O&C lands for timber above all else failed.

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

April 27, 2024 in Antiquities Act, Bureau of Land Management, Counties & Federal Lands, Federal Lands, LItigation, National Monuments, National Park System, National Park Service, Presidents

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.

Public Lands Blog

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A fortnightly exposition on some aspect of federal or state public lands in the United States. Some posts goes rather deep and serve as a useful (I hope) backgrounders on particular public land areas, matters or issues. Other fortnights, you’ll find a topical piece addressing a public lands controversy of the moment. This blog not only defends, but also extols, public lands.

Andy Kerr of The Larch Company (www.andykerr.net) splits his time between Ashland, OR and Hancock, ME. He has been significantly involved in the enactment of more than 25 pieces of federal and state legislation and in copious litigation pertaining to public lands. Dedicated to the conservation and restoration of nature, The Larch Company is a non-membership for-profit organization that represents species that cannot talk and humans not yet born. A deciduous conifer, the western larch has a contrary nature.

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