From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Sep 25 12:45:47 2015 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:45:47 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News for September 25, 2015 Message-ID: <5BFC63B298A82F4F9C841F27468D2DF01C633854@DLCDSXCH05.dlcd.state.or.us> Welcome to this week?s roundup of the Land Use News! The Land Use News is an electronic news clipping service provided by the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD). Land Use News emphasizes local reporting and commentary on land use in Oregon and other states. The links to copyrighted news stories in Land Use News are not archived by DLCD, and the archiving policies of these sources vary. The stories, if available, reside on the site of the original news source. Please direct requests for archived stories, or permission to reprint them, to the original news source. Past Land Use News weekly e-mails may be found here: http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/pipermail/landuse-news Anyone may subscribe, unsubscribe, or change their subscription to the free service by visiting this site: http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/landuse-news. ________________________________ In Oregon, sage grouse listing decision met with cheers, caution OregonLive.com Tom Sharp, a Harney County rancher who recruited his neighbors to adopt grouse-friendly land management practices aimed at convincing regulators ... Owl replay avoided The Register-Guard Oregon was a leader in these cooperative efforts, with many ranchers ... tanks to clearing land of juniper trees that encroach on sagebrush habitat. Sage grouse listing decision: What Oregon, national leaders are saying OregonLive.com A sage grouse listing could have been devastating for many Oregon ... hard decisions like limiting energy development, prohibiting transmission lines, ... The Latest: Conservationists split over sage grouse decision Longview Daily News The head of the House Committee on Natural Resources calls the decision not to seek federal protections for the greater sage grouse a cynical ploy. Imperiled Sage Grouse Denied Protection under Endangered Species Act Scientific American DENVER, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A long-simmering debate in the American West over an imperiled ground-dwelling bird reached a climax on Tuesday as ... LNG opponents ask Brown to intervene Daily Astorian Stand up for Oregon ? Say no to LNG! ... legal footing to deny the Oregon LNG project because Clatsop County ? which denied the company's permit Congress should preserve crucial fund for public lands (OPINION) OregonLive.com Apparently the history of America's public lands is one of those topics. ... parks, and more than $300 million to Oregon's parks and public lands overall. Critics of bottled water plant aim for Oregon ballot KVAL Nestle Waters, a division of the Swiss food company, hopes to swap water rights with the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, giving Nestle access to ... Umatilla County rejects wind farm plan East Oregonian (subscription) ... 292-turbine wind farm in Morrow County and on a section of Umatilla County. But the company's preliminary application to the Oregon Department ... Power up: Panasonic building 65MW solar farm in remote southeast Oregon Portland Business Journal (blog) Alvin Scott, planning director for Malheur County, said at least 13 commercial solar projects have received conditional approval in the county, though ... Court opposes Canyonlands Conservation Proposal Burns Times Herald The court agreed to direct Harney County Planning Director Brandon ... Originally adopted in 1974, Goal 5 and related Oregon Administrative Rules ... Klamath County bans marijuana, recall effort underway Grants Pass Daily Courier (subscription) KLAMATH FALLS ??? Klamath County commissioners continued their fight against marijuana Tuesday, when all three voted in favor of a ban on ... Organic ag great in Oregon My Columbia Basin The state of Oregon is fourth in the nation in sales of organic agricultural products. Lindsay Eng of the Oregon Department of Agriculture says the state ... Hemp Pilot Project & Oregon Disaster Counties AgInfo.net Now a group of Oregon politicians have asked the Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon State University to implement an industrial hemp ... Gypsy Moths Found In Oregon KEX After six straight years of single digit detections, the Oregon Department of Agriculture has trapped 14 gypsy moths this summer including two Asian ... Send questions for geologist, emergency manager on Oregon's predicted earthquake, tsunami OregonLive.com Experts expect an earthquake and tsunami on the scale of those in Japan in 2011 to hit oregon, but they can't say how soon. Carmen Merlo, Portland's ... Mallams disputes water orders, files petition Herald and News Klamath County Commissioner Tom Mallams is challenging orders issued in early summer to stop pumping irrigation water. He has filed a petition for ... Summer of record heat & wildfires comes to a close kgw.com The fall season officially begins on Wednesday, after a summer of extended heat and record wildfires in Oregon. The summer of 2015 began on ... Online Interactive Bend Growth Survey Now Available myCentralOregon.com Online Interactive Bend Growth Survey Now Available ... what they think about different Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) expansion scenarios currently ... information about them in the reports posted at www.bendoregon.gov/bendugb. Editorial: Collaborate, don?t litigate, the problems on the Deschutes Bend Bulletin The courts may become a venue for a war over water in the Deschutes River Basin. Two environmental groups ? WaterWatch of Oregon and the ... Larger stream buffers will make for healthier salmon (OPINION) OregonLive.com Salmon stimulate more than a billion dollars annually in Oregon's rural and urban economies ? money flowing to small businesses, like sporting ... Peter Courtney's vanishing transportation credibility: Editorial OregonLive.com House Minority Leader Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte, took pains at a House session March 4, 2015, to show the links between Oregon's clean fuels ... Oregon DOT study estimates under-maintained bridges could cost state $94 billion over 20 years Equipment World Magazine The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is painting a grim picture of the economic impact on the state with current bridge funding and ... Metro Council set to begin urban reserves hearings on Oct. 8 Metro newsfeed The Clackamas County Commission declined these invitations. ... responding to (the Land Conservation and Development Commission's) remand ... TriMet chief: Reconsider I-5 bridge Portland Tribune According to the Oregon Department of Transportation, congestion was up 6.3 percent in the Portland region during the first five months of 2015, and ... La Grande man pushing for secession to Idaho East Oregonian (subscription) As Parsons sees it, rural Oregon and Washington residents who are tired of being outvoted by the population centers in Portland and Seattle would be ... Updated Pendleton transportation plan will consider walking, biking, riding East Oregonian (subscription) The city received a grant from the Oregon Department of Transportation to fund the planning process, which the city used to hire four transportation ... Children of rural and minority Oregonians suffer, study says OregonLive.com Rural Oregon children face challenges at school and in life because their parents are largely consigned to low- and medium-low-wage occupations. Portland-area unemployment falls as employers add thousands more jobs OregonLive.com The measure is often much higher in rural Oregon. In fact, two-thirds of the state's 36 counties registered higher unemployment rates than the state ... How much should you earn in Oregon? Try our wage calculator OregonLive.com ... and are concentrated in the Portland area more than the rest of Oregon. ... location say a lot about the type of job you can expect to land in Oregon. County commissioners approve recommendations for tourism facilities grants despite divided ... Tillamook County Pioneer Tillamook County's tourism program is the only one in Oregon to designate funding for physical tourism facilities, such as restrooms, boat? America's most walkable cities of 2015 WVTM13 Tuesday marks World Car Free Day. To mark the event, which promotes the improvement of mass transit, cycling and walking options, take a look at ... Street Now Conference, May 23-25 Smart Growth Network This year's National Main Street Center conference will bring together doers, makers and innovators to address challenges facing 21st century ... Images reveal how dry the ground has become across California, Oregon and Washington Daily Mail Large swathes of the US continue to suffer the impact of a deep, ongoing drought. Conditions have been particularly severe in California, Oregon, and ... How researchers measured history of California drought San Francisco Chronicle (subscription) In normal years, the mountain range's snowpack provides 30 percent of the state's water. It is the primary source for reservoirs that supply drinking ... Map: Are Coffee Shops Really Markers of Gentrification? SF Weekly (blog) The alleged correlation between gentrification and coffee shop density isn't just an urban myth. As the Guardian pointed out in February, houses and ... Bay Area lawmaker introduces legislation to end regional transportation agencies San Jose Mercury News "We are just doing a simple, functional consolidation of regional planning, that's all we are doing," he said. "It's a small step toward functional efficiency ... Los Angeles County plans to lower property taxes on urban lots used for farming LA Daily News LOS ANGELES ? The Board of Supervisors voted today to move forward with a plan to reduce property taxes on some vacant urban lots if owners ... Leaders in Urban and Brownfield Redevelopment Launch New Firm GlobeSt.com Urban infill development is one of the hottest subsets of the real estate development industry at the moment due to skyrocketing demand for residential ... Group proposes making Pittsburg more walkable, bikeable Hutchinson News PITTSBURG - A group focused on making Pittsburg more walkable and bikeable is suggesting that the city focus on $2.9 million in priority projects ... Char-Lene Farm supplements income with agritourism Carroll County Times Connor Crispens, 8, sits in a wagon next to his mother Michelle while picking pumpkins and playing games along with his father Steve and sister Katy, ... Tulalip, Swinomish Preserve Forest and Salmon Habitat With Two Significant Initiatives Indian Country Today Media Network Two significant environmental initiatives were implemented within the last three weeks?opening prime salmon habitat on the Tulalip Reservation and, ... 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