From sadie.carney at state.or.us Fri Dec 21 15:21:39 2018 From: sadie.carney at state.or.us (Carney, Sadie) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 23:21:39 +0000 Subject: [LandUse-News] Land Use News: December 21, 2018 Message-ID: <1448d6fd86104051aec2325d0fec33b4@dlcd.state.or.us> Welcome to this roundup of the Land Use News! Happy Holidays! 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, agency announcements 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. ________________________________ Is Drought Slowing Down the Christmas Tree Industry? National Integrated Drought Information System According to recent news reports (USA Today, WJHG, Wilkes Journal-Patriot), the United States has been experiencing a nationwide Christmas tree shortage, along with price hikes as a result of low supplies. The U.S. Christmas tree industry is a $2 billion a year industry, according to annual reports from the National Christmas Tree Association. Study Looks at How Carbon Emissions Absorbed by Ocean Impact Salmon's Sense of Smell The Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife News Bulletin The ability to smell is critical for salmon. They depend on scent to avoid predators, sniff out prey and find their way home at the end of their lives when they return to the streams where they hatched to spawn and die. New research from the University of Washington and NOAA Fisheries' Northwest Fisheries Science Center shows this powerful sense of smell might be in trouble as carbon emissions continue to be absorbed by our ocean. House Speaker pushes plan for denser housing in Oregon KATU Similar to Portland's Residential Infill Project, one Oregon legislator says she's planning to introduce a plan to increase density in large cities across the state. House Speaker, Rep. Tina Kotek, wants Oregon cities with more than 10,000 people to allow duplexes, triplexes, and four-plexes in areas zoned for single families. America's Hottest Housing Debate Is Coming to Oregon Slate Magazine It took a minute, but America is finally warming up to a revolutionary construction paradigm that could shorten commutes, lower housing costs, and ease the way to racial and socioeconomic integration in cities and suburbs: the apartment. Oregon Moves On Plan To Repurpose The Elliott State Forest For Research OPB News After years of struggling to figure out what to do with the Elliott State Forest, Oregon officials now have a proposal they like. Members of the State Land Board voted Tuesday to start work on a plan to transfer the 80,000-acre forest near Coos Bay to Oregon State University. What's really going on with the Trump attack on federal sage grouse plans The Wildlife News When the Bureau of Land Management released its final analysis on sage grouse plan changes in early December, a flurry of media stories trumpeted the reduction of protected sage-grouse habitat from 10 million to 1.8 million acres of federal land. That sounds like a big bad deal, but the reality is even worse. The plan amendments would undercut sage-grouse protections across 83 million acres of sage-grouse habitat in the west by stripping away mandatory and measurable protections, and giving states and industries that sued to dismantle the 2015 Obama-era sage-grouse plans everything they asked for in their lawsuits. Landmark agreement improves hydropower profits and salmon recovery rates iFIBER One News Many years of disagreements and legal wrangling over how water is spilled over dams on the Columbia and Lower Snake Rivers will finally quell today with the announcement of a landmark compromise. The agreement between tribal leaders, the federal government, and the states of Washington and Oregon will be recorded Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Portland, and promises to increase to survival rate of juvenile salmon while also lessening the financial impacts to hydropower generation at the dams. Redmond Planning Commission backs expansion projects KTVZ The Oregon Department of State Lands, Deschutes County, and Redmond are collaborating to make these proposed land changes a reality. Four UGB expansions approved in Portland-metro area Daily Journal of Commerce The Metro Council voted unanimously Thursday to approve four urban growth boundary expansions and open up 2,181 acres of land for future development. Is PHIMBY Realistic? Planetizen As NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) activists have become more successful in using zoning codes to block new housing, housing supply in many metro areas has lagged behind demand, causing housing prices to rise. In response, a YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) movement has arisen in a few high-cost metros; YIMBYs seek to fight for new housing, taking on NIMBYs and (usually) allying with residential developers. YIMBYs focus heavily on zoning reform; they seek to reduce or eliminate government regulations that restrain housing supply. New York City's Self-Induced Transportation Crisis - CityLab CityLab The story of e-bikes in New York City is like a transportation parable. Until last spring, as subways were slowing, traffic from ride-hailing vehicles was thickening, and bike fatalities were on the rise, e-bikes were illegal to ride. That was in spite of the fact that these increasingly popular battery-boosted bicycles have long provided a vital means of transportation for thousands of working New Yorkers making below minimum wage, are energy and space efficient, cost-effective, quiet, and quick. The Great Migration: As Money And Young People Flow Into Cities, Will The Rural West Survive? Mountain Journal With their rugged natural beauty and mountains that make skiers salivate, places like the Methow Valley of northern Washington face a tough decision. Struggle economically, relying on industries rapidly becoming automated like timber, agriculture, and mining, or sell out and allow the masses to come with their skis, bikes, and boots to recreate. Keep the place small and rural, or become a Bend, Oregon, Jackson, Wyoming or Bozeman. As Mark Haggerty puts it, "if you have an airport, a national park, and a university, your problem is too much growth. If you don't have one of those things, you're probably losing people." 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