Since the state legislative session adjourned in June, the natural resources portfolio at the Association of Oregon Counties (AOC) has been active implementing AOC’s policy priorities passed during the 2023 session and queuing up [...]
By JULIE UFNER, CHRIS MARKLUND, NACo | CountyNews View orignal source here. Jun. 27, 2016 Both the House and the Senate appropriations committees have passed their versions of the FY17 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies [...]
Oregon is watching filings in federal courts of lawsuits challenging the Records of Decision of land use plans by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service intended to conserve key sagebrush habitat, [...]
In late August during a roundtable discussion with local, state and national sage grouse conservation partners at Portland's World Forestry Center, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced USDA's new four-year strategy that will invest approximately $211 [...]
Sage Grouse Not Listed Big news this summer when the U.S. Department of the Interior announced that sage-grouse will not be listed under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). AOC, along with numerous other groups [...]
The Legislature did deal with the issue of the Sage Grouse, but much remains to be done. This is just the activity from the Christmas Tree Bill, there were other legislative actions that will be [...]