While the election of Donald Trump is a setback for the conservation of mature and old-growth forests, such can be overcome.
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Joe Biden
Wyden’s Awesome Owyhee Opportunity
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.
Read More30x30: Biden Needs to Up His Game
For President Biden to ensure that 30 percent of the nation’s lands and waters are conserved by 2030, as he promised, the pace and scale of protections needs to increase dramatically.
Read MoreBiden’s Executive Order on Forests, Part 1: A Great Opportunity
President Biden is poised to enter the pantheon of forest-protecting American presidents.
Read More30x30, Part 2: What “Conserved” Needs to Mean
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Lowering the standard on nature conservation to up the numbers is like counting a face mask hanging loose from one ear as someone being masked. It’s not going to end well
Read More30x30, Part 1: By the Numbers
To permanently protect 30 percent of its lands by 2030, the US must conserve 114,183 acres of land per day—with no time off for weekends and holidays.
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 MoreBiden’s Bait and Switch
Unfortunately, “America the Beautiful” represents a gross dereliction of the duty of the Biden administration to future generations.
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Figure 1. Goodbye, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Source: Wikipedia.
46, the 117th, and the New Math: 50 + 1 > 50
Fortunately, the Trump administration was generally so grossly incompetent at governing that most of the Trumpian rollbacks were, are being, or can be overturned through a combination of executive, judicial, and congressional actions.
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