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[Oregon Natural Resources Report] Oregon Natural Resources Report » Cattlemen Update: Water, taxes ...: Means Committee soon to be heard on the Senate Floor.  This bill was amended to allow burning in the Silverton hills but it still allows the Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) to ban field burning by rule.  It is important to consider the implications of this legislation on other natural resource industries that need to use burning in stacks or in areas far from urban populations throughout our state.  Allowing EQC to ban field burning in our important grass seed industry can lead to banning burning in our other natural resource industries in other areas of the state.

[The Oregon Catalyst] New land-use laws could revive economy - The Oregon Catalyst: About 25 million acres are zoned for farm or forest uses in which development of any kind is extremely limited. This zoning is a remnant of the 1970s, when Oregon’s economy was based primarily on natural resources.

[Natural Resource Report] Oregonians for Food and Shelter Capitol Update - Natural Resource ...: HB 2424 Adopt-a-highway: Expands the current program to allow a volunteer group to choose one or both of the following activities as part of Oregon’s Adopt-a-Highway Program:  (1) removal of litter and/or(2) removal of noxious weeds.    Many thanks to Brenda Pace for sheparding this concept through the process.   OFS testified in support of passage of HB 2424 on 3/24.  Rules for the noxious weed portion of the program will be adopted by ODA and will include requirements like weed identification, safe removal methods or control techniques such as clipping of seed heads.  Herbicides will not be used by volunteers.  In addition to the actual removal of specific problem weeds from our highway rights-of-ways, the bill will also increase public awareness of the problem and help educate citizens about what they can do to be a part of the solution on their own property.  Great job Terry!

[Coyote Gulch] Western States Water Council: 2009 Symposium day two recap ...: Governor Ritter kicked off the second day of the conference with a presentation about the opportunities and challenges facing the state and the western U.S. “Water is the most important resource to Colorado,” he said, citing the importance of water to recreation, tourism, agriculture, energy development along with the basic needs for the population.

[The Stump] Oregon's land-use system: a barrier to economic recovery | The ...: Oregonians need to be aware that Oregon has the most restrictive land-use system in the country. On private land in urban areas, development is tightly controlled, and private land in rural areas is locked into highly restrictive zones that allow very little development.

[Natural Resource Report] Oregon Natural Resources Report » OFS Capitol Update: PURS, Ag ...: The bill as it stands in the B-Engrossed version represents many hundreds of hours of time by OFS staff and OFS, OFIC and OFBF member representatives.   It also has come along way since the final interim workgroup concept was first drafted as LC-804.   That group and its chair Senator Bonamici, also had significant input/pressure from various Oregon school organizations, Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP), Oregon Environmental Council (OEC), Oregon Toxics Alliance (OTA), The Pitchfork Rebellion, Citizens Sprayed by Pesticides and numerous others whose goal was clearly to outlaw all pesticide use on or even near school property.   Some were the exact same folks who put forth legislation in 2007 to ban all pesticide use within 5 miles of any school property and the roads leading to them.

[BlueOregon] BlueOregon: HB 3058 Fast Track for LNG an Irresponsible Choice: LNG imports are expected to stay well below the record levels of 2007, Roesser said, attributing this to a combination of increasing global demand, declining gas production in Europe, slowing of new LNG liquefaction capacity coming on-line and lower domestic prices. The Sempra LNG terminal is now on-line, but the company recently said "they don't expect active shipments coming to the West Coast until late 2009."

[Blog About Hydraulic Truck Cranes For Sale] Blog About Hydraulic Truck Cranes For Sale » Ross Industrial Lift ...: Environmental Groups welcome EPA’s proposed rejection of key elements of TCEQ’s air permitting plan and call for proper enforcement of Clean Air Act protections in Texas (Austin) — Sierra Club, Public Citizen, and the Galveston/Houston Association for Smog Prevent (GHASP) welcomed th .

[The Velvet Snoot] Check Out Your States Legislation on Animal Abuse & Safety HERE: Individuals convicted of second-degree animal cruelty would be prohibited from owning or caring for similar animals for two years, and repeat offenders would be permanently barred from owning or caring for any similar animals. The substitute bill, SB 5790, prohibits individuals convicted of second-degree animal cruelty from owning or caring for any animals similar to the one(s) he or she abused, for two years, and permanently bars individuals convicted of first-degree animal cruelty from owning or caring for similar animals.

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For September 29, 2009: The influence of religious leaders on American policies has been so strong for so long that the only options you have are to either change the constitution to have it accurately reflect reality, or to change your perception of reality in order to have it reflect the constitution.

[Think Out Loud] Think Out Loud The Switch: Biomass · Oregon Public Broadcasting: "[O]ur Policy Forum emphasized that wood is too valuable to waste with inefficient combustion and that community-based advanced wood combustion (AWC) systems used for heat, cooling, and power operate at two to three times the efficiency of electricity-generating facilities being planned in response to the Congressionally proposed Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). Burning wood solely for electricity is not AWC as defined in our Policy Forum, given that these facilities will waste 60 to 75% of the energy stored in wood.

[BlueOregon] BlueOregon: Explaining the Measure 37 "fix": The referral protects Oregon’s natural resource economy by allowing only the three home sites on high value farmland that is zoned for exclusive farm use and on high value forestland. It also protects existing water users by applying the same limitation in areas designated by the state as groundwater limited or critical.

[BikePortland.org » Front Page] BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » Lawmakers leave bikes out of ...: Parrow explained that the new Urban Trail Fund would take Oregon Lottery dollars that were already going to State Parks, and that would have been spent on recreation trails, and directs some of the funds toward more transportation-oriented trails. But the actual language of the bill, and how it will work, has not left Parrow too hopeful.

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