Oregon Hikers

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I don't know Guy, but I second his question: what are actual cases where dog poop in forest environments has damaged it? Surely there are some actual cases.

Yesterday, Feb. 6th, Danielle Kurtzleben wrote a piece on "relative deprivation" . Kurtzleben is an political reporter for NPR, and data junkie who launched Data Mine " when she was at US News & World Report. In the piece, Kurtzleben writes: "Relative deprivation describes being deprived of somethin...

Yesterday, Feb 6th, 170 conservation groups co-signed a letter urging senators to reject Zinke for Interior Secretary. The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth lead the way: Press Release: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/ryan-zinke-02-06-2017.php Lette...

Some states really, really want to take over their federal lands. Utah and Alaska are probably at the top of the list. An NPR segment today touched on the efforts of Utah's Rep. Rob Bishop, chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources. http://www.npr.org/2017/02/05/513492389/utah-representative...

Today, a newspaper in Virginia published an opinion piece by Rupert Cutler , who has "held numerous positions within the environmental world, including being appointed as assistant secretary of agriculture for conservation, research, and education under President Jimmy Carter. He has worked for the ...

The promised withdrawal of HR 621 has yet to appear on congress.gov as an action, if Chaffetz is indeed going to go through with it. The 3.3 million acres called out in the bill all fell under BLM. No NPS or USFS lands. The tracts were identified as a result of a nationwide search back in 1997 when ...

I agree, and there is other national scale land swap legislation that is supported by these groups too, as in this thread:

http://www.oregonhikers.org/forum/viewt ... 14&t=25034

... and a land-swap bill that is actually supported by environmental/wildlife/wilderness groups, such The Wilderness Society. Another preview of legislation beyond the horizon, land-swap bill titled "Advancing Conservation and Education Act". The House bill was introduced in July 2016 by Chaffetz an...

Threats have these two facets: ownership and extraction. Ownership seems much less pressing given Trump and Zinke. But I think Trump's stance is based not on reverence but on his history as a developer. So the foundation of Trump's "keep-public-lands-public" stance would seem quite vulnerable to his...