Legislative Report for the Week of May 4 – 8, 2009 Oregonians For Food and Shelter WEEK 17 – During the week, bills started moving more rapidly, especially those being heard by committees in the second chamber.   Bills sent to the House floor for an “up or down” vote continued […]

Oregon Invasive Weed Awareness Week highlights efforts By Oregon Department of Agriculture, It takes a TEAM effort to successfully battle invasive noxious weeds in Oregon. TEAM- Together Everyone Achieves More- is the acronym being used as the theme for this year’s Oregon Invasive Weed Awareness Week, May 17-23 as proclaimed […]

NR Report, Add timber tax revenue to the list of revenue streams drying up for local, county and state government.  A bad economy coupled with the burst of the housing bubble has spelled disaster for a once stable source of income for government.  With lumber production projected to be down […]

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife: CLACKAMAS, Ore. – The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will host a public presentation entitled, “Living with Oregon’s Black Bears” on Tuesday, May 19 in Sandy. The presentation will take place from 7-8:30 p.m. in the conference room at Mount Hood National Forest […]

By Oregon Farm Bureau Field Burning Ban (SB 528): SB 528, which reduces the number of acres able to burn in the Willamette Valley to 20,000 in 2009 and eliminates the management tool in 2010, will have a public hearing on Wednesday. It allows some burning of steep terrain and […]

Oregon State University: CORVALLIS, Ore. – Sonny Ramaswamy, an agricultural leader from Purdue University, has been named dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University. He also will direct the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station, which is based at OSU.Ramaswamy succeeds long-time OSU dean Thayne Dutson, who retired […]

By Dave Hunnicutt Oregonians In Action, Press Release The United States Senate is considering adoption of S 787, also known as the Clean Water Restoration Act, an innocent sounding name for a bill that would have significant impacts on all private property owners across the United States. If approved, S […]

By Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife LA GRANDE, Ore. – A joint effort by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife specialists resulted in the capture, radio-collaring, and release of a male wolf on Sunday morning, May 3, at approximately 7 a.m. PT. The […]

Weekend National News Focus: National Cattlemen’s Beef Association: WASHINGTON (May 6, 2009) – The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) today announced a meaningful first step in the longstanding trade dispute between the U.S. and European Union (EU) over the use of growth promotants in cattle. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) […]

American Farm Bureau Guest Writer Stewart Truelsen.   As the economy loses blue collar and white collar jobs, one bright spot in the employment outlook appears to be so-called “green collar jobs.” But what exactly are green collar jobs?Vice President Joe Biden described green collar jobs this way: “They provide […]