Between now and 2029, the conservation community needs to reorganize its operations to expand its political power so as to be able, should the opportunity arise, to greatly advance the conservation of public lands and waters in the United States.

The conservation community needs to be prepared to exploit the next big opportunity to greatly advance the conservation of public lands and waters in the United States.

Trump has overtly broken a Forest Service that has long been covertly broken.

Finally, a quantitative measure allows the public to see how our federal elected officials rate on federal public lands conservation.

In 1770 Edmund Burke said, “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one.” Culture rewrote it into “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” In this case, either works.

Trump’s plan to return to historic levels of timber production on western Oregon BLM holdings will spell the end of mature and old-growth forests on those lands, along with degraded water quality and extirpated species.

Following an executive order from Governor Kotek, Oregon may significantly elevate the conservation status of 10 percent of the land and water in the state in the next decade—or it may not.

President Trump’s evisceration of the Forest Service should not upset enviros, as the agency deserves it, albeit for reasons other than Trump’s.

Bottom Line: The legislative protection of Steens Mountain was incomplete and needs to be completed.

At the turn of this century, the political stars aligned to legislatively protect Steens Mountain for the benefit of this and future generations.

The Biden rule wouldn’t have made any significant improvement to the administration of Bureau of Land Management holdings, regardless of who is ever president.

Bringing back old-growth forests at scale in New England can naturally remove massive amounts of carbon dioxide polluting the atmosphere, carbon that was once safely stored in big old trees.

Both the need and the potential exist to allow vast acreages of New England forestlands to again become old-growth forests.

To be remembered as the greatest public lands conservationist to come out of the Oregon congressional delegation, Wyden needs to step up his game.

Ron Wyden has a way to go to exceed the Oregon public lands conservation legacy of his predecessor, Mark Hatfield, but he can do it before he retires.

58.5 million acres of inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest System are once again in existential jeopardy.