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.

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.

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

If currently degraded forests are included in a national monument dedicated to long-term conservation, our grandchildren will be able to see the vast landscape of old-growth Douglas-fir forests that our grandparents saw.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This is the second 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 2 examines a recent ruling by the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

This is the first 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 in western Oregon. Part 1 sets the stage with a brief history and description of recent epochal events.

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.

In 2000, Congress told the Bureau of Land Management to remove a small, but fish-damaging, dam on the Donner und Blitzen Wild and Scenic River and in the Steens Mountain Wilderness. The BLM may finally get around to it.

The Forest Service’s announcement that it is going to amend all national forest land management plans to “conserve and steward” old-growth forests is a start, although it’s a third of a century late and the proposed amendment is as light on conservation as it is loose on stewardship. As now proposed, the amendment leaves out mature forests, and the agency would leave loopholes large enough for log trucks loaded with old-growth logs to drive through.