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A Monumental Battle, Part 2: National Monuments in the Congress

Crabtree Lake in Crabtree Valley, home to some of the largest and oldest trees in Oregon, located on western Oregon public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management, in Linn County, is part...

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An Unprecedented Assault Upon the Federal Public Lands

Hole in the Ground is just a run-of-the-mill extraordinary piece public land on the Deschutes National Forest in Lake County Oregon, where many times over many decades the author has camped either in...

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National Heritage Areas: Combining the Conservation of Nature, History, and...

National heritage areas (NHAs) are a way to conserve and restore important natural, historical, and cultural resources for this and future generations while at the same time generating local economic...

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Will Trump Dump National Monuments?

President Trump signed an executive order on April 26, 2017, that directs Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to review sixty-two of the last three presidents’ national monument proclamations, dating...

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Theodore Roosevelt: The First and Greatest Public Lands Conservationist

“Birds should be saved for utilitarian reasons; and, moreover, they should be saved because of reasons unconnected with dollars and cents. A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as...

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The Elliott State Forest Will Not Be Privatized—But Will It Be Saved?

On the morning of Tuesday May 9, a little known public body called the State Land Board met in a state office building in Salem. While the SLB itself is little known, its three members are Oregon’s...

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Trump Administration “Review” of Certain National Monuments

It's all about the Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah. Source: Tim Peterson, Grand Canyon Trust. The attempted Trump dump of national monuments is under way. You have a chance to register...

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The High Cost of Cheap Grazing

It costs more to feed a domestic housecat than to graze domestic livestock on federal public lands.This has generally been the case since the early 1900s, when the federal government first required...

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Federal Payments to Timber-Addicted Counties

Until the northern spotted owl hit the fan in 1989, most counties in Oregon enjoyed federal payments of 25 percent of gross receipts from the sale of timber off of National Forest System lands. For...

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Federal Systems for the Conservation and Enjoyment of Lands and Waters

Over the course of more than a century, Congress—or the executive branch using expressed authorities granted by Congress—has established various systems for the conservation, management, and enjoyment...

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The Coastal Barrier Resources System

Probably the least generally known of the various conservation systems established by Congress is the John H. Chaffee Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS). You’ve more likely heard of Chaffee, a...

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The Trump Administration Takes Out 17 International Biosphere Reserves

The United Nations recently announced twenty-three additions to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR). At the same council meeting where those additions were made, a request by the United...

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The National Marine Sanctuary System, Actual and Potential

The National Marine Sanctuary System as of 2017. In April 2017, President Trump issued Executive Order 13795, which among other things is designed to promote oceanic oil and gas exploitation. The...

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Increased Wilderness Demand Calls for Increased Wilderness Supply

Use of the Three Sisters Wilderness nearly tripled between 2011 and 2016. Use figures are dramatically up in several wilderness areas in Oregon’s central Cascades.The Forest Service is proposing to...

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Numerous No-Take Marine Protected Areas Are Best for Commercial Fishing

Marine protected areas (MPAs) in the United States exist to preserve our nation’s marine resources for this and future generations. About 26 percent of US marine waters are protected in some kind of...

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Premembering Jim Weaver, Oregon Conservationist

Several federal wilderness areas in Oregon would be roaded clear-cut if not for former Representative Jim Weaver (D-4th-OR, 1975–1987). Weaver has been the greatest wilderness advocate to represent...

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The Westerman Bill: The Timber Industry’s Wet Dream

Who wouldn’t want “resilient” (“able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions”) forests? With the name Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017 (H.R.2936, 115th Congress), what could...

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Wilderness and Mountain Bikes: Can They Co-Exist?

The Great Sand Dunes Wilderness in the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado One can borrow this tricked-out wheelchair from the National Park Service. Source: National Park Service...

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Owyhee Canyonlands: Faux Conservation and Pork Barrel Development

In 2016, a coalition of conservation and business interests (including Portland’s Keen Footwear) tried mightily to persuade President Obama to proclaim an Owyhee Canyonlands National Monument on Bureau...

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​​​​​​​Now That’s a Member of Congress!

Rep. Jared Huffman (D-2nd-CA) has announced his intention to introduce legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to expand nine existing wilderness areas, establish ten new wilderness areas...

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