Andy Kerr

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

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

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

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.

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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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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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Clinton and Obama Giveth, Trump Taketh, and Biden Restoreth: Two National Monuments in the State of Utah

Clinton and Obama Giveth, Trump Taketh, and Biden Restoreth: Two National Monuments in the State of Utah

Two national monuments in Utah have been restored, but it isn’t over.

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Preremembering Jerry Franklin and Norm Johnson, Oregon Conservationist

Preremembering Jerry Franklin and Norm Johnson, Oregon Conservationist

The old forests of the Pacific Northwest are in far better condition today than they would be if not for Professors Jerry F. (for Forest!) Franklin and K. Norman Johnson.

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