By Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities, When a wildfire starts in our national forests, it is common sense to put out the fire while it is small. That is also what the American public expects from the agencies responsible for protecting our forests and nearby communities. Yet a recent Associated Press […]

Regulatory Update By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, The Oregon Climate Action Commission (CAC) voted to adopt the most ambitious of a set of proposed statewide carbon sequestration goals, nearly doubling the target they established in 2021. The goal is intended to be achieved through Natural Climate Solutions implemented on […]

OFB Welcomes Administration’s Overhaul of Bureau of Land Management Grazing Regulations BY Oregon Farm Bureau, Oregon Farm Bureau Welcomes Administration’s Overhaul of Bureau of Land Management Grazing Regulations Salem, Ore. – Oregon Farm Bureau welcomes the Trump Administration’s overhaul of Bureau of Land Management grazing regulations, which represent a meaningful […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, Late this afternoon, the Oregon Elections Division completed signature verification for Initiative Petition 28 and has determined that the petition does NOT contain sufficient signatures to qualify for the November general election ballot. While some in the industry hoped to see it on the […]

By Oregon Family Farm Association, Forest Grove firefighters quickly doused a brush fire started in a crimson clover field near Gales Creek by farming equipment, days after firefighters fought a similar field fire sparked by combine. The blaze burned two acres in the 5400 block of Northwest Old Wilson River […]

Regulatory Update By Oregonians for Food and Shelter,   The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) has released the final Climate Resilience Attributes of Oregon Lands and Waters report. The metrics developed from these attributes will be used to track state agency progress toward the Governor’s climate resilience goals. During the […]

By Oregon Small Business Association Foundation, As part of its recycling program, California has offered a $5 million grant to help Revino expand its reusable wine bottles with a washing and processing center. With the CalRecycle grant, Revino, a Newberg startup that has sold 1.9 million specially designed bottles for […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, OFS and our broad coalition of concerned partners are closely watching the developments for IP 28, or what we believe is likely to become Ballot Measure 121. Oregon voters are inching closer to voting on whether to prohibit animal agriculture, pest control, hunting and […]

Helfrich Calls for Immediate Action to Protect Oregon Family Farms By Oregon State Representative Jeff Helfrich, Hood River, OR – Following a meeting with Columbia Gorge tree fruit growers yesterday afternoon, Representative Jeff Helfrich (R-Hood River) is calling on Governor Tina Kotek, state agencies, and legislative leaders to take immediate […]

New Lawsuit Threatens Forest Management as Oregon Faces Another Summer of Wildfire and Smoke By American Forest Resource Council A new lawsuit seeking to invalidate the Bureau of Land Management’s Northwestern and Coastal Oregon Resource Management Plan for western Oregon’s O&C lands threatens to delay active forest management across 1.3 […]