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Articles written by Adam Bronstein


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  • Protecting Oregon's state animal would go far to help Beaver State

    Adam Bronstein, Oregon Capital Chronicle|Jun 13, 2024

    It is a truly sad state of affairs here in the Beaver State: Our salmon stocks are struggling mightily, biodiversity is crashing under the weight of human activities, climate change is accelerating, drought is greatly affecting regional agriculture and wildfires threaten our communities every summer. But there is a nature-based solution that could help. Protecting our state animals could greatly assist human and wildlife communities adapt to the many challenges we face. The wetlands and...

  • Hunters, fishers need to demand better federal management of public land

    Adam Bronstein, Oregon Capital Chronicle|Feb 2, 2023

    I have been hunting and fishing on public land in the West for over 20 years, and I can tell you through experience that where there are cows, the quality of fishing and hunting has been severely impacted. Where there is no domestic livestock, there are many more trout, elk, deer, and moose. Cows and sheep are invasive species and ecological misfits in the arid West. Bovines were first domesticated in southeast Asia and were exported to the European continent where the climate was wet and the...