A lingering effect of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation

Oct 18

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

H. Pike Oliver focuses on master-planned communities. He is co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022.

Early in his career, Pike 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. For the next three decades, he was involved in master-planned development on the Irvine Ranch in Southern California, as well as other properties in western North America and abroad.

Beginning in 2009, Pike taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in Urban and Regional Studies. He relocated to Seattle in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2020, served as a lecturer in the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, where he also served as its chair.

Pike graduated from San Francisco State University's urban studies and planning program and received a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

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