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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 27: (Guest Commentary, The Oregonian) Stafford: You can never get it back once it's gone</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/12/stafford_you_can_never_get_it.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/12/stafford_you_can_never_get_it.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">In "Taking the low road to Stafford" (Dec. 18), The Oregonian's Andy Parker trivializes the Stafford Basin…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 27: (The Oregonian) The quest to designate Portland's growth areas sets counties against each other</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/12/the_quest_to_designate_where_t.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/12/the_quest_to_designate_where_t.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Metro and its three counties find themselves at a stalemate over what areas to set aside for long-range development, putting an unprecedented attempt to find regional land-use happiness in jeopardy…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 27: (The Oregonian) Portland area projects seek Metro grant money</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/12/portland_area_projects_seek_me.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/12/portland_area_projects_seek_me.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Metro announced that public agencies in 12 Portland-area cities have applied for a slice of $3.5 million in grants that can be used to make land within the urban growth boundary ready for development….</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 27: (Editorial, Bend Bulletin) State takes ‘use’ out of ‘land use’</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091227/OPIN01/912270306"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091227/OPIN01/912270306</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">So this is where nearly eight years of Gov. “shovel-ready Ted” have gotten us. In a draft demolition of Bend’s proposed urban expansion…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 27: (The Oregonian) Conservation groups hope to buy forestlands to manage</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/12/conservation_groups_hope_to_bu.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/12/conservation_groups_hope_to_bu.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">SISTERS -- Brad Chalfant eases a 12-passenger van over a jagged logging road just miles from the Three Sisters. Once owned by a timber company…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 26: (The Oregonian) When the land's worth more than the trees</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/12/when_the_lands_worth_more_than.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/12/when_the_lands_worth_more_than.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">GLENWOOD, Wash. -- For 100 years, Ponderosa pines nourished this logging town of 500 nestled along Mount Adams' southeastern flank…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 25: (Portland Tribune) Tigard looks to withdraw from Metzger, Bull Mt. CPOs</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.portlandtribune.com/metro_news/story.php?story_id=126161919650103400"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.portlandtribune.com/metro_news/story.php?story_id=126161919650103400</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">It wasn’t long ago that Tigard wanted Bull Mountain to consider the big “A” word — annexation. Now, it looks like Washington County’s third largest city wants nothing to do with the unincorporated area…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 24: (The Oregonian) Troutdale wants to put its wind to work</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/12/troutdale_wants_to_put_its_win.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/12/troutdale_wants_to_put_its_win.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">If Troutdale is known for anything, it's wind. Sitting at the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge, the town east of Portland gets some howlers, especially when the wind is coming from the east. So why not, Mayor Jim
Kight figures, put that wind to use?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 24: (Time Magazine) Climate Change: How Fast Is the Earth Shifting?</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1949869,00.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1949869,00.html#ixzz0b0JMaG6D</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">There are many units by which to measure the impact of climate change: degrees of increasing temperature, feet of rising sea level, dollars needed to adapt to a warming world…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 24: (Newberg Graphic) 1000 Friends protests city’s economic analysis</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.newberggraphic.com/news/2009/December/24/Local.News/1000.friends.protests.citys.economic.analysis/news.aspx"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.newberggraphic.com/news/2009/December/24/Local.News/1000.friends.protests.citys.economic.analysis/news.aspx</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">As the Newberg Planning Commission discusses a staff report on economic opportunities and development, state and local conservation groups are making their objections known…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 24: (Guest Commentary, West Linn Tidings) Oppose extension of land-use approval</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.westlinntidings.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=126159798338315200"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.westlinntidings.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=126159798338315200</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">We watched the two-year extension discussion on channel 30 last night. This two years would be on top of the already very generous…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 23: (KDRV-TV, Medford) State Ruling Could Cost Bend Big</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://kdrv.com/news/local/156809"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://kdrv.com/news/local/156809</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">A battle over how and where the City of Bend will grow could put a million dollar expense on the city's already cash strapped budget…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 23: (Cottage Grove Sentinel) Council names planning commissioners</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.cgsentinel.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=4185&page=72"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.cgsentinel.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=4185&page=72</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">The Cottage Grove City Council appointed four individuals to the Planning Commission at the Council’s Dec. 14 meeting…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 22: (Daily Journal of Commerce) Zidell plans waterfront development</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/12/22/zidell-plans-waterfront-development-after-cleanup/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/12/22/zidell-plans-waterfront-development-after-cleanup/</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Zidell, the Portland maritime firm, says it wants to turn its industrial property along the Willamette River into a “spectacular mixed-use” development…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 22: (Editorial, L.A. Times) For U.S., leadership role in climate talks should begin in Washington</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-copenhagen23-2009dec23,0,2588247.story"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-copenhagen23-2009dec23,0,2588247.story</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">We've been reserving judgment on last week's United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen because we're still trying to figure out what, exactly, happened…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 22: (The Oregonian) 1000 Friends of Oregon is calling on its pals</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/12/1000_friends_of_oregon_is_call.html"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/12/1000_friends_of_oregon_is_call.html</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">With Metro and three Portland-region counties seemingly at a stalemate on designating urban and rural reserves, the conservation group 1000 Friends of Oregon is asking its supporters to lean on the decision-makers…</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Dec. 22: (Daily Astorian) Walmart is not yet a ‘done deal’</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=66583"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><u>http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=66583</u></font></a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">A new local group called Clatsop County Citizens for Responsible<font face="Arial Unicode MS Western, sans-serif"> </font>Development has formed to fight the proposed Walmart Supercenter in Warrenton…</font></div>
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