DSL Proposes Rule Changes Affecting Farmers and Ranchers Across Oregon By Oregon Farm Bureau, The Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL) is proposing new rule changes that will have a tremendous impact on property owners along navigable rivers, coastal rivers and streams.   Please take a moment to review these changes […]

By John Hart American Farm Bureau Federation, With the United Nations climate talks occurring in Copenhagen and the recent finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, global warming is once again making headlines. Senate leaders are promising passage of […]

John Buckman Oregon Department of Forestry A $2.2 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant was awarded recently to the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act). The funds will put previously idled workers back to work conducting non-commercial thinning operations on more […]

Timber Industry Encouraged by Wyden Introduction of Oregon Eastside Forests Restoration, Old Growth Protection, and Jobs Act of 2009 By American Forest Resource Council Portland, OR–The American Forest Resource Council, a timber industry trade association based in Portland, Oregon, is hopeful Sen. Ron Wyden’s (D-OR) introduction of the Oregon Eastside […]

Wyden Brings Oregon Timber and Conservation Groups Together for Central, Eastern Oregon Forests and Families — Decades-old logjam broken to restore Oregon forests and Oregon jobs By US Senator Ron Wyden, Washington, D.C. – After decades of warring over Oregon’s national forests, representatives from Oregon’s timber industry and conservation groups […]

Natural Resource Report, Press release material below provided by Oregon Wheat Growers, Senator Martha Schrader, (D) Canby; Senator Joanne Verger (D) Coos Bay; Senator David Nelson (R) Pendleton; Rep.Bruce Hanna (R) Roseburg; Rep. Mike Schaufler (D) Happy Valley; Representative Schaufler was present to accept his award.  Representative Schaufler served on […]

Barry Bushue reelected as Oregon Farm Bureau President By Oregon Farm Bureau Barry Bushue was reelected to a sixth two-year term as president of Oregon Farm Bureau during the organization’s recent 77th State Convention in Hood River. Bushue runs a family nursery, berry, and flowering basket operation near Boring. “I […]

Chairing his first International Trade Subcommittee hearing, Senator Wyden called for the creation of a comprehensive Export Expansion strategy designed to put the American workforce back to work. Wyden released a report that looks at the benefits that lowering tariffs to green products produced by American companies. The text of […]

By Department of Fish and Wildlife, SALEM, Ore. — The technical committee advising Columbia River fishery managers has released its forecast for the 2010 spring Chinook run. If the fish show up as projected, the forecast of 470,000 spring chinook would be the largest return to the Columbia since 1938.  […]

Forest Policy Briefs by Rex Storm, Forest Policy Manger Associated Oregon Loggers Forest Service Threatens Contempt of Congress: Oregon’s US Forest Service says it cannot complete a land exchange required by a federal Wilderness law passed in April.  The law requires that by October 2010 the USFS complete an exchange […]