State Forestry Workforce Study Confirms Vital Role of Forest Sector, Urges Targeted Investment in Oregon Talent By Associated Oregon Loggers, Salem, OR – The Oregon Forest Operations and Management Workforce Study (Study) was accepted on Friday and released today with input from many forest sector partners, including state agencies, public […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, Legislative Update HB 2025, which the Transportation Reinvestment committee passed yesterday, but faces an uncertain fate on the both the House and Senate floors. Lawmakers did craft a bi-partisan solution to wildfire funding (HB 3940), cobbling together a new tax on nicotine pouches and […]

By Oregon State Senate and State Republican offices, June 11, 2025 While the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) is anticipating a good fall fishing season for Chinook and Coho in most coastal basins, Coastal House and Senate Republicans are growing concerned about the potential for Chinook salmon fishing […]

By Oregon Property Owners Association As the Oregon legislature nears the end of its 2025 legislative session, the fate of Senate Bill 83A, the fix to the deeply flawed Oregon Wildfire Map, is in serious jeopardy. What once appeared as a bipartisan agreement is now being held hostage by leaders […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, We’re down the last two (at most) weeks of the 2025 Legislative Session, with major outstanding issues still being negotiated including transportation and wildfire funding, and the Governor’s two water-related bills, SB 1153 and SB 1154. Democratic leadership continues to propose a transportation package […]

By State Representative Boomer Wright and State Representative Court Boice June 9th, 2025 Representatives Boomer Wright (R-Reedsport) and Court Boice (R-Gold Beach) applauded the signage of Senate Bill 221 which will assist in the establishment of fall Chinook fish incubation nursery programs. Streamside incubators, such as those promoted by the […]

Legislative Update By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, The Legislature is continuing to figure out how to tie up loose ends in the final weeks of the session. Those loose ends are pretty major, including determining how to cobble together a proposal for road maintenance and other transportation needs, finding […]

REPRESENTATIVE BOBBY LEVY CELEBRATES PASSAGE OF SB 777 TO STRENGTHEN OREGON’S WOLF COMPENSATION PROGRAM By Oregon State Representative Bobby Levy,   SALEM, ORE. – Today, the Oregon House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 777 A, legislation that significantly strengthens Oregon’s Wolf Depredation Compensation and Financial Assistance Grant Program. Representative Bobby Levy […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter, OFS legislative priorities are narrowed down to just a handful of bills at this point in session, with the Governor’s SB 1154 being the primary bill we’ve been spending time on over the last several weeks, in addition to our budget priorities. The bill […]

By Oregonians for Food and Shelter,   This week brought more headlines from Salem as legislators try to figure out how to pay for a proposed transportation package. The transportation co-chairs have unveiled a revised proposal for a transportation package, notably suggesting the replacement of DEQ’s current Climate Protection Program with a cap […]