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Eastern Oregon Forest Restoration and Old Growth Protection News Clips
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News clips relating to the Oregon Eastside Forest Restoration, Old Growth Protection, and Jobs Act of 2009, introduced by Senator Ron Wyden in December 2009. The bill is the product of months of negotiations between conservationists and timber industry representatives and includes permanent protections for old-growth forests and watersheds.
- Conservationists & Forest Service work together in Northeast Oregon to protect communities and public lands
- The Oregonian editorial board may be exaggerating the fire risk, but the need for restoration is on the mark.
- Former Oregon Wild Executive Director Andy Kerr puts on his restoration logging thinking cap.
- Work goes in fits and starts as weather takes its turn.
- To get their economy flowing again, Oregonians must carve a fresh path around the barriers that have blocked productive management of public lands
- Legislation could get boost from new report highlighting positive economic impact.
- Don’t judge clean energy by its cover
- The East Oregonian weighs in on the Wyden forest legislation.
- Oregon Wild Conservation and Restoration Coordinator Doug Heiken pushes the merits of the Wyden eastside bill.
- The Oregonian editorial board questions whether criticizing the Wyden eastside forest legislation is a wise election year gambit.
- Delegation should push breakthrough eastside deal
- Senator Wyden hosts field hearing, listens to all sides in eastern Oregon forest legislation compromise.
- The Senate subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests convened in Bend Friday. It took testimony on Senator Ron Wyden's bill that would protect old-growth trees and promote forest thinning east of the Cascades. Reporter David Nogueras reports.
- Senate field hearing explores all opinions on compromise eastern Oregon old-growth protection and restoration legislation.
- Noted Republican polling firm finds support for Wyden legislation across all measured demographic groups.
- Poll comes in advance of Bend field hearing on Senator Wyden's forest legislation.
- Experts gather in Bend to testify in support of Wyden eastside forest legislation.
- The eastside old-growth legislation, supported by Oregon Wild, would protect ancient forests and restore degraded ecosystems.
- Oregon Wild Eastern Oregon Wildlands Advocate and founding member Tim Lillebo opines on the East Side Forest Legislation - and a possible end to the timber wars.
- The Oregonian editorial board urges elected leaders and public to galvanize behind forest compromise.