The company behind Oregon’s newest natural gas pipeline will donate at least $22 million for conservation projects in our state and across the West. It’s the result of a three-way deal between the Oregon Natural Desert Association, Western Watersheds Project and El Paso Corp. The money will be used to undo some of the...
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Update: Adding Press Release by Cascadia Wildlands A bill to protect the Devil’s Staircase, and another that expands the Oregon Caves National Monument, have been approved by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The vote is a “milestone” according to Senators Wyden and Merkley. The bills now go before the full Senate for...
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Late notice, I know. I just got word of this a short while ago. If you’re in the Portland area you may want to attend a meeting this evening on a new management plan for BLM land in Southeast Oregon.
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Plans for a huge gold mining operation has put the Chetco River in Southern Oregon on this year’s “Most Endangered Rivers” list.
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Some 50-million acres of our country’s wildest places will be protected for at least another year.
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It looks like the Wyden-Merkley bill creating a new Wilderness Area in Eastern Oregon finally gets a hearing this morning. The Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests will take testimony starting at 11:30am Pacfic time. The hearing will be streamed live.
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UPDATE: Hearing has been cancelled for today. We haven’t heard when it will be rescheduled. A bill to create 16,000 new acres of wilderness in Eastern Oregon gets a Senate hearing Tuesday morning. Called the “Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven Wilderness Act of 2010″, the bill arranges a land swap between private landowners and...
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Maybe it’s because my mind is fried from all the research I’m working on today, but this video from Oregon Wild is pretty amusing. It’s done Jib Jab style, with cartoon figures of Senator Wyden and Representative DeFazio hiking through the Devil’s Staircase Wilderness. Wyden and DeFazio introduced legislation to protect the area last year,...
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Oregon’s Senators are introducing a bill that would protect another 16,000 acres of wilderness in Oregon. Called the “Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven Wilderness Act of 2010″, the bill arranges a land swap between private landowners and the Bureau of Land Management. The result is two large continuous tracts of land that can be...
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Considering how important the new Wilderness Bill is to Oregon, it’s surprising to see that today’s coverage in newspapers around the state is low key. While the Oregonian gave it front page prominence, most of the other papers we check seemed satisfied to run a wire service version of the story, or hardly mentioned...
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