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Bureau of Land Management: Four December Plan Revision Meetings Scheduled for Oregon
The Bureau of Land Management in western Oregon is scheduling a series of what they are calling “Community Listening Sessions.”...
We Need Your Help Now
A Message from Bob Ferris Cascadia Wildlands’ catch phrase is: we like it wild. But it could just as easily...
Mr. Cady Goes to Washington or Ten Bears and Josey Talk Wolves
By Bob Ferris I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s and watched Westerns with my dad. We liked the...
Teddy and the Big Assed Wolves
By Bob Ferris "The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation. It is still...
We are Salmon
By Bob Ferris When reading Tim Egan’s recent op-ed in the New York Times on salmon I was reminded of...
Tag the Tongass
By Bob Ferris Roughly 1.2 million people visit the 17 million-acre Tongass National Forest each year, but few of...
Blog: Rhetoric on Tongass Doesn’t Match Actions
by Gabe Scott A nail is being driven in the coffin on Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Is it a...
Of Zombies, Zane Grey and Western Rivers
By Bob Ferris I became convinced yesterday that actors who play zombies in movies learned their walking techniques from fly...
O&C Schemes: What About Blacktail Winter Habitat?
Pictures and graphics are always important. In putting together a power point slide for an upcoming talk I am giving...
Who Wants to Bet the Farm on This Tired Old Horse?
By Bob Ferris As a wildlife biologist who has spent most of his professional career working with critters, I...
On Becoming a Wolf Activist—Do the wolf waltz
By Bob Ferris “Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the oppressor.” Ginetta Sagan The title of...
Excuse me but when exactly did the USFWS become the CIA?
By Bob Ferris I have worked on conservation issues through more than seven administrations and during that time I have...
We Have Oregon Wolf Pup-age in 2013
By Bob Ferris Although we do not have total counts at this point, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife...
Fantastic Fourth Float
To celebrate the recent passage of the suction dredging bill and in an effort to remove myself from the computer,...
BLM: Make Up Your Mind on Brush
By Francis Eartherington When BLM logs our public lands, they determine how logging is done by using a “prescription.”...
