Grazing Next to the Malheur National Wildlife Reserve

Written By H. Pike Oliver

There are continuing developments more than five years after the 41-day armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge that was documented on this blog. On February 26, 2021, The Seattle Times posted an Associated Press story that was updated on March 2, 2021. The headline of the story reads, Grazing rights rescinded for controversial Oregon ranchers.

In the last days of the administration of POTUS 45, the U.S. Department of Interior granted grazing allotments to the Oregon ranching family whose members committed arson on Federal land and were sent to prison for five-year sentences. Right-wing extremists outraged by the prison sentences occupied wildlife refuge during January and February 2016. And in 2018, POTUS 45 pardoned the arsonists.

On February 26, 2021, officials in the administration of POTUS 46 rescinded the grazing allotment decision.

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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