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Restore Purpose of Clean Water Act to preserve river
- Stateman Journal (new window)
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2010-01-13 |
| It's not a secret that the Willamette River has its share of problems. It's also not a secret that the Willamette River is polluted. It's not even a secret that a portion of the Willamette River is a designated superfund site. | |
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Kurt Schrader: Big win on the Molalla River
- BlueOregon.com (new window)
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2009-11-20 |
| Congressman Kurt Schrader showed he knows how to get the job done in Washington DC by moving legislation at warp speed through the US House of Representatives. The most curious part of this is that this collection of out-of-state Republicans, who have never been to the Molalla River, chose this issue to take a pro-logging stand on. There is virtually universal support for this bill from the city of Molalla to Clackamas County to the congressional delegation and just about everyone in-between. It's no surprise: the river provides clean drinking water to Canby and Molalla, and it's an undiscovered gorgeous river with some important salmon runs. By protecting the undiscovered river, locals hope that this will also help put their community on the tourist map and thus generate more local jobs. | |
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House passes bill to protect Molalla River
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2009-11-19 |
| The House Thursday approved legislation that would extend the highest level of federal protection to 21.3 miles of Oregon's Molalla River. The bill, which was sponsored by Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., sailed though the chamber by a 292-133 vote. All five members of Oregon's delegation voted for the bill. It now moves to the Senate where Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have introduced an identical measure. | |
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Op-Ed: The Columbia Gorge is a treasure we must protect
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2009-11-10 |
| This month, National Geographic Society's Center for Sustainable Destinations ranked 133 international tourist destinations on environmental quality, social and cultural integrity, historic buildings and archaeological sites, aesthetic appeal, tourism management and outlook for the future. The Columbia River Gorge tied for 10th place internationally and second place nationally for sustainable destinations. Two current proposals would drastically damage the very things that make the gorge so special: its beauty and authenticity. We each share a responsibility to keep the gorge the treasure that it is for our children, future generations and our neighbors around the world. | |
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Wilderness highlighted at conference
- Roseburg News Review (new window)
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2009-11-10 |
| Experts, scientists, politicians and representatives from regional organizations including ECONorthwest, Umpqua National Forest and Oregon Wild teamed up with Umpqua Watersheds and the Wild On Wilderness committee to discuss wilderness preservation as it relates to economics, climate change and quality of life for Oregonians. | |
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Editorial: A big step for the beautiful Devil's Staircase
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2009-11-01 |
| With a fanciful name like "Devil's Staircase," it's hard to imagine that Congress wouldn't want to protect this amazing, almost mystical waterfall and surrounding forest in Oregon's rugged Coast Range. Indeed, odds for protecting it improved last week when a bill to create the 29,600-acre Devil's Staircase Wilderness made it to the House floor. | |
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Government will buy $1 million of land in Siskiyou monument
- Medford Mail Tribune (new window)
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2009-10-30 |
| A $32.2 billion Interior Department appropriations bill en route to President Obama's desk includes $1 million to purchase islands of land from willing sellers in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Another $350,000 is earmarked for a visitor center at Crater Lake National Monument. The funds are part of nearly $7 million for Oregon projects announced today by Oregon Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley. They are for the 2010 fiscal year, which began Oct. 1. | |
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Oregon wilderness proposals clear House committee
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2009-10-28 |
| Bills to create a wilderness area in southern Oregon and give greater protections to the Molalla River passed out of a House committee today. The Devil's Staircase proposal, championed by Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., would designate 29,650 acres of Coast Range forest as wilderness, the highest level of protection for federal lands. And a bill from Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., would grant greater protections to a 21-mile section of the Molalla River under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. | |
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Kulongoski wants to head off Calif. gold miners
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2009-10-15 |
| Gov. Ted Kulongoski wants to head off recreational gold miners who may be headed to southwestern Oregon since California imposed a ban on using suction dredges in rivers. | |
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Federal funds heading for Oregon wildlife projects
- The Register-Guard (new window)
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2009-04-27 |
| Nearly $8.8 million in federal economic recovery funds are bound for Oregon to repair roads, dams and other facilities at national wildlife refuges and federal fish hatcheries, Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced Monday. | |
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No cars, no roads, no kidding
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2009-04-07 |
| When President Barack Obama's signing pen lifted off a public lands bill April 6, great pieces of Oregon were immediately surrounded by invisible lines. | |
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Conservationists hail new era as Congress passes wilderness bill
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2009-03-26 |
| Completing a journey nearly as rocky as some of the land involved, Congress passed sweeping conservation legislation Wednesday that protects 200,000 acres of popular mountains and forests in Oregon and millions more nationwide. | |
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Votes light so far on weighty issues
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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2007-11-04 |
| Preserving Oregon's farmland and scenic beauty. Protecting property rights. Extending health insurance to 100,000 youths. Raising taxes for smokers. Measures 49 and 50 put weighty issues on Tuesday's statewide ballot -- issues that long have aroused residents' passions. Yet voters don't seem enthusiastic, despite hefty TV advertising for both measures and record spending by tobacco companies. | |
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Both sides of Measure 49 say opponents' ads are misleading
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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2007-11-04 |
| Both sides of Measure 49 are trading comments about a final round of television and other ads before Tuesday's election. Ads in support urge voters to look at the explanatory language on the ballot: "Modifies Measure 37; clarifies right to build homes; limits large developments; protects farms, forests, groundwater." | |
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SORTING FACT FROM SPIN IN MEASURE 49 CAMPAIGN ADS
- The Register-Guard (new window)
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2007-11-03 |
| For weeks, TV viewers have been greeted by images of unhappy folks who share their fears of depleted retirement savings, seized property and vanished inheritances. All are warning of a grim future for perhaps every Oregonian if Measure 49 passes in Tuesday’s election. Meanwhile, remote-control-wielding Oregonians also have been told that they can help farmers protect their way of life and livelihood and contain the sprawl of subdivisions and strip malls, if they just follow the advice of farmers, firefighters and others, and pass Measure 49. | |
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Oregon farm bureaus and nurserymen promote M-49
- Hillsboro Argus (new window)
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2007-10-23 |
| SAUVIE ISLAND - Farmers from counties throughout the lower Willamette Valley, including leadership of the state and county farm bureaus, gathered last week at a farm here to tell Oregonians why they hope the state passes Measure 49 on Nov. 6. The farm community is deeply concerned about the unlimited development of subdivisions and strip malls on lands that Measure 37 allows on lands previously dedicated to agriculture. | |
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Both sides of Measure 49 say it's all about fairness
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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2007-10-22 |
| The year before he voted for Oregon's property-compensation law Measure 37 in 2004, Don Dean bought property in the hills south of Salem. He checked beforehand with Marion County planners. He was assured his new home was in a buffer zone next to a farm-use area, and that under the county plan and Oregon's land-use planning laws, he would not have to worry about development next door. Then after voters approved Measure 37, LeRoy Laack filed a claim seeking compensation or a waiver of land-use regulations to develop 43 home sites on 217 acres. | |
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Owner fears effects of new homes
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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2007-10-22 |
| With almost 60 years between them at TRW Inc., Vincent and Genevieve "Gene" Melynis decided the time had come to leave behind the aerospace business and Southern California. They had friends who lived in Oregon, and they had plenty of equity from their previous home. | |
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Basic questions of Measures 37, 49 and what they mean
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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2007-10-21 |
| Here are some questions and answers about Measure 49, which Oregon voters will decide in a special election Nov. 6. | |
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Agriculture, housing don't mix, second-generation farmer says
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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2007-10-21 |
| Not far from the north end of Keizer, off Wheatland Road North, lie the 300 acres of Bruce Chapin's filbert orchard. He raises filberts and cherries on some of the best bottom land in the Willamette Valley, in the floodplain of the Willamette River. Oregon produces 100 percent of the nation's filberts. | |
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Measure 49 is new chapter in land use, may not be last
- Statesman Journal (new window)
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2007-10-21 |
| For Oregonians, the struggle over land-use planning has lasted more than a generation. Since the state took a stronger role in land-use planning in the early 1970s, supporters and opponents continually have wrangled over the issue in the Legislature and the ballot box -- with voters rejecting three attempts to repeal or weaken the land-use law in 1976, 1978 and 1982. Then in 2004, after a false start four years earlier, critics won with the passage of Measure 37. It allowed landowners to file claims for government compensation or seek waivers of land-use regulations to develop property. Now the latest chapter in this controversy is playing out with the Nov. 6 election on Measure 49, which proposes to scale back some of Measure 37's claims and ease the path for others. | |
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Measure 49: Yes
- Mail Tribune (new window)
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2007-10-21 |
| If you think individual property owners should be able to build a house or two on land that's been in the family for years, but huge subdivisions, strip malls or industrial sites in rural areas are a bad idea, vote yes. | |
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Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2007-10-21 |
| Developer John D. Gray, known as a wise steward of the land, hopes voters will approach Measure 49 with eyes on the future | |
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Vote for a prosperous Oregon, not only for today
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2007-10-21 |
| Up until now, Oregon farmland has worked like a savings account. We can blow through it all at once and build suburbs -- and that's the business model of Measure 37 -- but it makes more sense to keep the land producing and paying off in farm income for generations. By approving Measure 49, voters can tell the bulldozers to back up, be gone -- and farmers like Oates to keep going. Keep growing, take care of business and make that business farming. | |
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Timber companies battle Oregon property rights rollback
- Associated Press
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2007-10-20 |
| New TV ads depict elderly couples worrying that the value of their land could be destroyed by a measure on the Nov. 6 ballot that would scale back a 2004 property rights law that opened up new possibilities for development. The ads are bankrolled in large part by timber companies, some of whom have filed claims to turn forest land into housing subdivisions under the 2004 property law known as Measure 37, and stand to benefit if the current law is left as it is. | |
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Both Sides In Measure 49 Debate Claim Farmer Support
- OPB (new window)
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2007-10-18 |
| 77-year-old Edmund Duyke has been farming outside of Hillsboro for more than 50 years. In that time, he’s seen a lot of development. One subdivision nearby sucks up much of the ground water he uses to irrigate his fields of sweet corn. Now Duyke’s neighbors on either side of his farm have filed Measure 37 claims for even more development. That’s why he’s hoping Measure 49 will put on the brakes. | |
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| 2007-10-08 | |
| Measure 49 is shaping up to be one of the hottest campaign fights of the fall. Measure 49 limits the development allowed under property compensation initiative, Measure 37. It changes the process for reviewing claims, and addresses the measure's legal uncertainties. OPB's April Baer spoke with Jeremiah Baumann, spokesman for the Yes on 49 campaign. (In his day job he's an advocate for Environment Oregon.) | |
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Vintners say Measure 37 could prune wine trade
- The Oregonian (new window)
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2007-09-27 |
| NEWBERG -- Measure 37, unless modified by voters, holds the power to severely crimp the future of Oregon's wine industry at precisely the time it is fast gaining national and international traction, a group of winemakers said Wednesday. Standing in a Parrett Mountain vineyard ripe for harvest, three winemakers and a wine-country tour operator said claims already filed under the voter-approved measure could affect more than 100,000 acres of prime potential vineyard land. | |
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M37 a threat to farmland, wine industry
- Gazette-Times (new window)
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2007-09-26 |
| Pro-conservation groups this week released back-to-back studies charging that Measure 37 threatens high-value Willamette Valley farmland and Oregon’s growing wine industry. The studies, conducted by Environment Oregon and the American Land Institute, also claim that the changes proposed in the Nov. 6 ballot Measure 49 would fix the problems. | |
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M37 a threat to farmland, wine industry
- Gazette-Times (new window)
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2007-09-26 |
| Pro-conservation groups this week released back-to-back studies charging that Measure 37 threatens high-value Willamette Valley farmland and Oregon’s growing wine industry. The studies, conducted by Environment Oregon and the American Land Institute, also claim that the changes proposed in the Nov. 6 ballot Measure 49 would fix the problems. | |
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