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

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.

In these dark times for nature, if not also the republic, it is all the more important not only to oppose but also to propose.

The excesses of the executive branch will need to be checked by the judicial branch, the legislative branch, and/or the people.

Like bankruptcy, the death of the Northwest Forest Plan has proceeded slowly and might end quickly.

The Trump administration believes that unless it can be sold or collateralized, it has no value.

America’s national forests have lost the greatest inside champion they’ve ever had.

America’s national forests have lost the greatest inside champion they’ve ever had.

Kelp forests are extraordinarily important concentrations of biodiversity and are extremely threatened, along the Oregon coast and around the world.

Many bitter lemons can make quite fine lemonade, but only if the conservation community reinvents itself.

Utah’s lawsuit against the United States is an existential threat to more than 200 million acres of federal public lands.

A new scientific review of many scientific papers suggests it is not necessary to thin before reintroducing fire into fire-dependent forests. Part 2 examines the new science and its implications for policy.

The Forest Service is blowing President Biden’s chance of saving mature and old-growth forest for this and future generations.

A new scientific review of many scientific papers suggests it is not necessary to thin before reintroducing fire into fire-dependent forests. Part 1 sets the stage with a review of past thinking about thinning.

The reduction of surplus production capacity continues to result in lumber mill shutdowns, though the contributing factors cited have changed as times have changed.

Senator Wyden is cosponsoring legislation that would give blank checks and get-out-of-jail-free cards to all BLM grazing permittees and lessees.

The White House is very interested in protecting Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands as a national monument before the end of Biden’s first administration. However, President Biden won’t proceed without the all-clear from Oregon’s two US senators. Your help needed. Now.

When political realities come up against ecological realities, the former must be changed because the latter cannot.

This is the fourth in a series of four Public Lands Blog posts regarding the infamous “O&C” lands, a variant of public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Part 4 recommends repeal of the O&C Lands Act of 1937 and transferring administration of all BLM lands in western Oregon to either the Forest Service or the Fish and Wildlife Service.

This is the third in a series of four Public Lands Blog posts regarding the infamous “O&C” lands, a variant of public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Part 3 examines a recent ruling by the US District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals.