Utah’s lawsuit against the United States is an existential threat to more than 200 million acres of federal public lands.
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O&C Lands Act, Part 3: The Decision of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals
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.
Read MoreCascade-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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreBook Review: Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public Lands
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Understanding the history of public lands is useful if one is to be the best advocate for the conservation of public lands.
Read MoreClinton 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.
Read MorePreremembering 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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Figure 1. Brock Evans on the Snake River in Hells Canyon along the Idaho-Oregon border. Today, the stream behind Brock is a wild and scenic river, the hills above part of the Hells Canyon Wilderness, all within the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. Source: Wake-Robin Press.
Preremembering Brock Evans, Oregon Conservationist
Millions of acres of older (mature and old-growth) forest in Oregon still stand today, the Snake River still runs free through Hells Canyon, and French Pete is again safely in the Three Sisters Wilderness—all because La Grande resident Brock Evans was on the case.
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