A lingering effect of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation

Written By H. Pike Oliver

Here is a brief post as a follow-up to my post in February 2016 of articles related to the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. As of October 2016, the trial of those who participated in that occupatio is underway. I came across this post by Patrick Lynch that appeared in the newspaper for Sandpoint, Idaho, the Bonner County Daily Bee, on October 16, 2016.

Mr. Lynch writes about how how his relatives who live near Burns, Oregon (the town nearest to the preserve told him, " .  .  . that their community was literally torn apart as a result of the armed occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge."  He went on to write that, "  .  .  .  they did not think their community culd heal, and that they were afraid of who they culd even talk to at the grocery store.  The conclusion was, "They felt their community had been destroyed by the armed occupation. They didn't know why they could trust any more."

This is a most unfortunate result of the armed occupation of this remote part of Oregon that took place early in 2016.

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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