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Andy Kerr | Oregon Conservationist, Writer, Analyst, Operative, Agitator, Strategist, Tactician, Schmoozer, Raconteur

Dedicated to the conservation and restoration of nature, The Larch Company is a non-membership for-profit organization that represents species that cannot talk and humans not yet born. A deciduous conifer, the western larch has a contrary nature.

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Izembek National Wildlife Refuge

Public Land Conservation Grand Bargains, Part 1: Hard Choices Ahead for Oregon Conservationists

September 23, 2019 in Congress, Land & Water Cons. Fund

Public Land Conservation Grand Bargains, Part 1: Hard Choices Ahead for Oregon Conservationists

If the soundtrack of Schoolhouse Rock’s “How a Bill Becomes Law” is an earworm in your head, it’s time to exorcise the demon. It no longer works that way.

Tags: Schoolhouse Rock, Oregon Congressional Delegation, Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Land and Water Conservation Fund, Owyhee Canyonlands Oregon, Congress, Oregon Public Lands Conservation, Denali National Park, Tongass National Forest, Izembek National Wildlife Refuge

Zinke’s Move to Defile the Izembek

August 10, 2018 in Department of Interior, Endangered Species, Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Lands, National Wildlife Refuges, Wildlife

Zinke’s Move to Defile the Izembek

The Trump administration is trying to allow a 12-mile road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and wilderness area in Alaska.

Tags: black brant, Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, Izembek Wilderness, Ryan Zinke, Steller's eider, northern sea otter, King Cove Corporation, Trustees for Alaska, President Carter, Alaska National Interest Lands Act, Ramsar International Convention, northern sea lion, Stellar sea lion, Sally Jewell, Endangered Species Act, Administrative Procedure Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Izembek Road, Peter Pan Seafoods

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A ~1,000-word weekly exposition on some aspect of federal or state public lands in the United States. Some blog posts goes rather deep and serve as a useful (I hope) backgrounders on particular public land areas, matters or issues. Other weeks, you’ll find a topical piece addressing a public lands controversy of the moment. This blog not only defends, but also extols, public lands.

Andy Kerr of The Larch Company (www.andykerr.net) splits his time between Ashland, OR and Washington, DC. He has been significantly involved in the enactment of more than 25 pieces of federal and state legislation and in copious litigation pertaining to public lands. Dedicated to the conservation and restoration of nature, The Larch Company is a non-membership for-profit organization that represents species that cannot talk and humans not yet born. A deciduous conifer, the western larch has a contrary nature.

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