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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green">Welcome to this week’s roundup of the Land Use News – Special Fourth of July early release! Happy Independence Day!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2015/06/fourth_of_july_means_be_fire_s.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTMjQ1OTYwODcyMzI1MTgzODUxNDIaMDlkZGMzMjMxMmNjMWFjOTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHHr2wmeeMyBYDn2ava5mjr9rEyGA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Fourth
of July means be fire safe when recreating on public lands </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">OregonLive.com
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Visitors to national forests are reminded to be "fire safe" this holiday and ... National Forest System lands in central Oregon are
not under public use ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/06/housing_supply_and_affordabili.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNTY3MjY1MzQ4MDY5NTkwNTcwNDIaMDNhMDBlZDQzNDdmNTY3NDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNE4qTQbtL6HUNPFogzQ9MKEthEIgw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Housing
supply and affordability are connected (OPINION) </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">OregonLive.com
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Increasing densities are a feature, not a bug, of Oregon's land use laws. If urban growth boundaries prevent the region from growing
out, it must grow ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.bendbulletin.com/business/3258463-151/report-homeownership-rate-expected-to-continue-to-fall?referrer=bullet1"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">Report:
Homeownership Rate Expected to Continue to Fall</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Bend Bulletin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The homeownership rate in the U.S. has been tumbling since the height of the housing boom. Fewer people own their homes because foreclosures claimed them, or because the
housing bust taught everyone to be wary, or because the economy ensured that families who might have bought in the past cant afford a home today.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/upshot/after-an-era-of-ups-and-downs-home-prices-return-to-sanity.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&abt=0002&abg=0"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">After
an Era of Ups and Downs, Home Prices Return to Sanity</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">New York Times<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Donte and Anjoli Hill postponed their honeymoon indefinitely and squirreled away cash wedding gifts in order to afford the down payment on the four-bedroom house they bought
a few months ago in this Tampa suburb.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/06/every-single-county-in-america-is-facing-an-affordable-housing-crisis/396284/?utm_source=SFTwitter"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">Every
Single County In America Is Facing an Affordable Housing Crisis</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A new report reveals that zero counties in the U.S. have enough housing for families in extreme poverty. - From Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine. From Jacksonville to
Juneau. No matter where you look, there isnt enough affordable housing. Without exception, there is no county in the U.S. that has enough affordable housing. The crisis is national and it is growing.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/06/mapping-where-american-workers-spend-the-most-on-housing-for-thursday-618/395891/?utm_source=SFTwitter"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">Mapping
Where American Workers Spend the Most On Housing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-It would take service workers in San Jose 20 years to save up for a home.-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Housing is quickly moving out of reach for the average American in many places, and not only in superstar cities like New York and San Francisco. Here at CityLab, my colleague
Tanvi Misra recently showed that the average American needs to earn $19.35 per hour to afford the average two-bedroom apartmentmore than two and a half times the minimum wage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1559745/canada-s-housing-affordability-trends-diverged-regionally-during-q1-2015-rbc-economics&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTM4ODM4OTQyMDA4MTUzMjUxMzYyGjA5MGRjZDI1YzEwMDQ5NzI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHvB7_EM_gLWQ6ILtDMsTsrU0ja7A"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Canada's
housing affordability trends diverged regionally during Q1 2015: RBC Economics </span>
</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Canada NewsWire (press release)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">TORONTO, June 22, 2015 /CNW/ - Housing trends across provinces largely counteracted one another in the first quarter of 2015, leaving
affordability relatively unchanged at the national level compared to late-2014, according to the ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://projects.registerguard.com/apf/biz/us-home-rental-prices/"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">US
Home Rental Prices Climb 4.3 Percent Nationally, Putting More Financial Pressure on Renters</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Eugene Register-Guard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Home rental prices are climbing across much of the United States with the biggest gains coming from not from New York or San Francisco but Jackson, Mississippi, and Portland,
Maine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://qz.com/408986/developers-have-figured-out-the-secret-sauce-to-gentrification/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSMTU1NjAzNTkzMTQyNjIwNjIwMho1NWIyNzIyOTg4MTdiNjU2OmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNEZ3TxnlBT-7qVzJVddVuEv0KlfRg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Developers
have figured out the secret sauce for gentrifying neighborhoods </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Quartz
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">First came the new coffee shops—two of them—in 2009. Newcomers had been trickling in for a few years, but that's when the gentrification
of New ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/breaking_ground/2015/06/the-suburban-office-park-is-a-relic-heres-the.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoSNTU2NzY5NjM2ODkxNzg5MDcwMhpiNjQ5M2YwMGU4YWVlYTY3OmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNEEjs6910xxh4HieR-Qmdm4V-GfUA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">The
suburban office park is a relic. Here's the damage it's doing to one D.C.-area county
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Washington Business Journal
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">The traditional suburban office park — generally cut off from public ... “There's no way to sugarcoat it,” said Gwen Wright, Montgomery's
planning ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.boston.com/jobs/news/2015/06/30/why-companies-want-downtown-badly/WcE7iwoDksqcxWAznfStBM/story.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU4MDc0NjQ4NTU4NTIxMDA5MDYyGjM3NzYzYWE4ZmY2YWJjNjc6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNGX4wO43mXTQzIh4gVO7PzsC6MyUQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Why
do companies want to be downtown so badly? </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Boston.com
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">According to a recent study by Smart Growth America and global real estate advisors Cushman & Wakefield, over 500 companies moved downtown ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.fbnewsleader.com/view/full_story_free/26729295/article-Rezoning-8th-Street-opens-avenue-of-possibilities%3Finstance%3Dmain_image_top&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTMjQ1OTYwODcyMzI1MTgzNjA2ODIaMGM0ZjVkYjU3Y2JlNTI0Mzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEsFxLZUoOK-L-bPs2HrzWDrUY4Pw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Rezoning
8th Street opens avenue of possibilities </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Fernandina Beach News-Leader
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">The group's goal was to review the commercial corridors of the city with regard to future land use and economic development, and to
create ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/news/eu-china-discuss-sustainable-and-smart-growth&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMjQ1OTYwODcyMzI1MTgzODYwMTIaMzc3NjNhYThmZjZhYmM2Nzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHXsqTY_VmAHusk-EaFX4xPZrFTqw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">EU-China
discuss sustainable and smart growth </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">European Commission - Europa
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">EU-China discuss sustainable and smart growth. Tuesday, 30 June, 2015. The EU and China held a Forum to discuss sustainable urban development ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/compensation-06222015151312.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioSNTU2NzY5NjM2ODkxNzkxMzI1MhpmMDE0MWQ0MzhiNmVhZTU0OmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNEeTWsqxf8JnihSSkFp_nhVYxdHig"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Lao
Villagers Must Accept Land Compensation or Face Detention </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Laotians are granted the right to occupy land through the state. ... clearly define which level of government is responsible for local
land management.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/264738-138149-panel-starts-adding-anti-gentrification-planks-in-portland-comprehensive-plan&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioSMzA1MzA3NDYzMDk2NjAyNDk0Mho1NWIyNzIyOTg4MTdiNjU2OmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNFmUcV8iu5Dx7jDZmUAYk3Fs9Qoqg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Panel
starts adding anti-gentrification planks in Portland comprehensive plan </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Pamplin Media Group
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">PHOTO BY STEVE LAW - Anti-gentrification activists hold signs at Tuesday night's Planning and The Portland Planning and Sustainability ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2015/06/sen_wyden_begins_listening_tou.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTMjQ1OTYwODcyMzI1MTgzNjA5NzIaMWU1NWFiMzNlZTdiMzZkNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFDsR9EtIZszoTV-B6Bhd9vcqWibA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Sen.
Wyden begins listening tour based on 7 Wonders of Oregon, outdoor recreation </span>
</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">OregonLive.com
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">The message was not lost on either of the legislators, both long-time proponents of land and environmental protections in Oregon. "You
can't spell ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://portlandtribune.com/pt/10-opinion/265225-137981-my-view-bill-would-tax-land-instead-of-buildings&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU4MDc0NjQ4NTU4NTIxMDAzMTUyGjBjNGY1ZGI1N2NiZTUyNDM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFtyLIuB8_-xCFsGE-H1-FatrWoNg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">My
View: Bill would tax land instead of buildings </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Portland Tribune
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Taxing economic development (buildings and improvements) puts a brake on it. But economic development is what we want. Taxing private
land ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/3288371-151/deschutes-county-to-review-two-proposed-solar-farms&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTU4MDc0NjQ4NTU4NTIwOTkyODIyGjFlNTVhYjMzZWU3YjM2ZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHhm4zxnOnIttobHOlqHZrlh6wf4w"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Deschutes
County to review two proposed solar farms </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Bend Bulletin
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">The facilities would cover about 70 acres on land zoned for farming and ... is co-developing the southern project with Oregon Solar
Land Holdings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/stayton/2015/06/17/easing-conservation-farmland-converts-forest/28869317/"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">Easing
Into Conservation; Farmland Converts to Forest</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Salem Statesman Journal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Retired farmer and Stayton resident Bob Koenig has lived near the North Santiam River for most of his life and, by choice or coincidence, it taught him one of the greatest
lessons of his life. As a result, he and a neighbor joined together in 2004 to enroll 331 acres in a wetlands reserve easement that included forested buffers, a first for Oregon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.fastcoexist.com/3047746/stress-at-work-is-whats-killing-the-honeybees&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoSMzA1MzA3NDYzMDk2NjAwNjEwMhozMDc0NmM4OWQxZGRkNTg1OmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNHEB7K9kdhyBcdT6WihpQyCIXXoTA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Stress
At Work Is What's Killing The Honeybees </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Co.Exist
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Bees</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525"> are mostly dying because of pesticides and
a certain ... from one massive industrial farm to the next, piled with 15 million fellow bees in the back ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://grist.org/food/heres-the-real-thing-killing-bees-us/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU4MDc0NjQ4NTU4NTIxMDA1MDAyGjMwNzQ2Yzg5ZDFkZGQ1ODU6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFxyUyUydkq35dkPx4GIMD0n3hHBA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Here's
the real thing killing bees: Us </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Grist
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">I hear all the time that bees are vanishing — but are they really? ... Black would like it if farmers simply stopped using pesticides
and everybody had ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/2015/06/29/they-want-to-delay-new-rules-on-pesticide-linked-to-bee-deaths&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTU4MDc0NjQ4NTU4NTIxMDA1MDAyGjMwNzQ2Yzg5ZDFkZGQ1ODU6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFp8VZPo3i3QgTCAqPBnjK8mdThqw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Grain
farmers want to delay new rules on pesticide linked to bee deaths </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Chatham Daily News
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Grain farmers are making a last-ditch effort to block new regulations that would restrict their use of a pesticide seed coating that's
been linked to ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/money/business/2015/06/19/early-june-heat-wave-to-reduce-oregon-wheat-yields/28988917/"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">Early
June Heat Wave to Reduce Oregon Wheat Yields</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Salem Statesman Journal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wheat yields are projected to take such a hit this summer that some Eastern Oregon growers may not even harvest their crop, a senior grain merchandiser said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.freshplaza.com/article/141795/Hazelnut-boom-underway-in-Oregon&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSNTU2NzY5NjM2ODkxNzkxMTY4MhplZDg0YzY2MjM1YmI3NWE4OmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNHrRonsFe6sQ9houVzp_4WAglGseA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Hazelnut
boom underway in Oregon </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">FreshPlaza
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Even some drought-stricken Almond nut companies from California are ... In Oregon, hazelnuts can grow without any irrigation once the
trees are ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/33199155-75/farming-water-demands-studied.html.csp"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">Farming
Water Demands Studied</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Eugene Register-Guard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-State officials want to find out how much irrigators need from the Willamette River-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">With drought and changing precipitation patterns on the minds of farmers and ranchers, an ongoing study of the Willamette River Basins dams and reservoirs is taking on a
new urgency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/how-to-save-wild-salmon-with-a-fork-and-knife/?utm_content=buffer89016&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=owned_buffer"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">How
to Save Wild Salmon With a Fork and Knife – Guest Opinion</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Seattle Times<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-If we demand wild salmon on our plates, we are demanding healthy habitat where wild salmon can thrive in perpetuity.-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It's time to save wild salmon by eating them. This seems counterintuitive. Why would we kill wild salmon if we are hoping to save them? The fact is, salmon are big business
and consumers wield tremendous power through their purchasing decisions. When you buy and eat wild salmon, you are investing your dollars in our nations sustainable wild-salmon fisheries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2015/06/state_limits_fishing_on_umpqua.html#incart_river"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">State
Limits Fishing on Umpqua River to Save Overheated Fish</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Portland Oregonian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has restricted fishing in the Umpqua River to protect endangered fish already stressed by warm, shallow waters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.capitalpress.com/Opinion/Columns/20150618/farmers-in-the-northwest-need-access-to-affordable-crop-insurance"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">Farmers
In The Northwest Need Access to Affordable Crop Insurance – Opinion</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Capital Press<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-From here forward, farmers who want risk protection will receive a bill, not a check, when they sign on the dotted line every year.-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When the 2014 Farm Bill became law, it marked a pivotal moment in the history of U.S. farm policy. The new Farm Bill eliminated direct payments and reduced some of the price
support policies of the past in favor of expanding crop insurance,which allows farmers to purchase varying levels of protection for their crops.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://registerguard.com/rg/opinion/33234463-78/science-leads-foresters-to-fish-friendly-practices.html.csp&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU4MDc0NjQ4NTU4NTIwOTc5NTYyGmU5OGM5MjUyY2VmODhhYTM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEfcmhjGXj9rY9_h7ERZw6umcDIow"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Science
leads foresters to fish-friendly practices </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">The Register-Guard
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">According to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, regulatory ... This corresponded with a high percent of pool habitat, slack
water pools ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://wlns.com/2015/06/23/michigans-urban-walkable-areas-growing/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoSNTU2NzY5NjM2ODkxNzkwMTY5MhpmZDY3MjAyZGMwY2JkMzc0OmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNGn1T6oO4b-27tKkueIAHJjw981EA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Michigan's
urban walkable areas growing </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">WLNS
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">A study from George Washington University in partnership with MSU shows walkable urban places are emerging in the state's top seven
metro areas ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.inman.com/2015/06/22/buyers-boots-are-made-for-walkin/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSNTU2NzY5NjM2ODkxNzkwMTY5MhpmZDY3MjAyZGMwY2JkMzc0OmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNHpGyjDat7V3dw1ve-eZSQe-CVFaA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Buyers'
boots are made for walkin' </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Inman.com
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">That's because individuals who live in walkable areas usually spend about 43 percent of their income on housing and transportation,
compared to ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/feature/5-things/2015/06/five-things-you-need-to-know-today-and-why.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioSNTU2NzY5NjM2ODkxNzkwMTY5MhpmZDY3MjAyZGMwY2JkMzc0OmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNHy_8I7a-k9McQf--ys4S31wpAa5A"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Five
things you need to know today, and why 'walkable' workplaces work </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Boston Business Journal
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Five things you need to know today, and why 'walkable' workplaces work. Jun 23, 2015, 5:02am EDT. Doug Banks. Boston Business Journal.
Share.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/06/tim_nesbitt_the_uber-logic_of.html#incart_river"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">Tim
Nesbitt: The Uber-Logic of Ridesharing Forces Drivers Into a Race to the Bottom – Guest Opinion</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Portland Oregonian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">On a recent trip to PDX, I asked my taxi driver from Union Cab whether Portland's decision to let Uber offer ridesharing services had cut into his business. I will get to
his answer in a moment, but first some background.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.progressiverailroading.com/passenger_rail/news/APTA-Public-transit-trips-dipped-a-bit-in-1Q--44850&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioSMzA1MzA3NDYzMDk2NTk5NzI5Mho5NmQzYjJkNGM2MGFkNjBhOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNFFLdgTzKV1ayuXCzxgs7dAXXmb8A"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">APTA:
Public transit trips dipped a bit in 1Q </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Progressive Rail Roading
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Almost 2.6 billion trips were taken on U.S. public transportation systems in the first quarter, down 0.7 percent compared with the same
period in 2014, ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/LCD/TGM/Pages/walkbikefunding.aspx"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">New
TGM resource: 40+ Sources of Funding for Walking and Biking Improvements</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">As communities look to build networks of safe places for people to walk and bike, funding is a central question. The Oregon Transportation and Growth Management program has
compiled a resource page listing over 40 possible sources of local, state, federal and private funding for such projects, with links to much more information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/lcd/tgm/pages/parking.aspx"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">TGM
Offers More Parking Management Resources</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oregon’s Transportation and Growth Management Program (TGM) is continuing to expand its resources on parking management.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In 2013, the Program published Rick Williams’
<i>Parking Made Easy</i> – an 82-page guide to communities looking to manage parking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/LCD/TGM/docs/parkingprimerfinal71213.pdf"><span style="text-decoration:none">http://www.oregon.gov/LCD/TGM/docs/parkingprimerfinal71213.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.progressiverailroading.com/passenger_rail/news/Canadian-government-unveils-Public-Transit-Fund-details--44842&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoSNTU2NzY5NjM2ODkxNzg5OTEyMho5NmQzYjJkNGM2MGFkNjBhOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNEHjtKGRr1J9N-gXXOXTOF6XGhxgQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Canadian
government unveils Public Transit Fund details </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Progressive Rail Roading
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week revealed further details about a program that will help fund public transit projects.
Known as the ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.builderonline.com/newsletter/minneapolis-tops-most-bikeable-cities-of-2015_c&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoSNTU2NzY5NjM2ODkxNzg4MDI4MhoxMTZiMzlkZDgzMzk0MTYzOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNGtME-Df3zgJ44zDIqlFChx6WScqA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Minneapolis
Tops Most Bikeable Cities of 2015 </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Builder Magazine
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Minneapolis was ranked as 2015's most bikeable city in the U.S. according to Rachel Musiker at Walk Score. Minneapolis's score of 81.3
put it far ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/263817-136998-portland-launches-vision-zero-efforts?utm_source=New+Media&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PortlandTribune+%28Portland+Tribune%29"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">Portland
Launches Vision Zero Efforts</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Portland Tribune<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-Task force, citizens' pledge are two first steps-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Amidst lots of testimony from advocates, Portland City Council voted Wednesday morning to officially adopt Vision Zero an initiative that aims to eliminate all traffic fatalities
and serious injuries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ngtnews.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php%3Fcontent.10890&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTMjQ1OTYwODcyMzI1MTgzODY4ODIaN2QxMTZkOWMxYTYyMTAyMTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNH_TVERlexs7yLTWgAoSDf4YMJ4ug"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Clean
Fuels Program Survives Close Call in Oregon </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">NGT News
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Last week, Gov. Kate Brown, D-Ore., and Oregon Senate Democrats called it quits on a proposed transportation funding package, which
included a ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.sunjournal.com/news/river-valley/2015/06/23/dixfield-selectmen-learn-sidewalk-project-may-be-pricier-anticipated/1731236&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSMzA1MzA3NDYzMDk2NjAxNjg4MhplMDVlNWY3NzVkYTU0MWNjOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNH0r17vfjZxTqZ7KH262fseHI9amA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Dixfield
selectmen learn sidewalk project may be pricier than anticipated </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Lewiston Sun Journal
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen learned Monday evening that the Safe Routes to School project may cost the town $40,000 more than
expected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/more-green-space-less-noise-linked-to-better-learning/?utm_content=buffer061ad&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=owned_buffer"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">More
Green Space, Less Noise Linked To Better Learning</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Seattle Times<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">-A growing body of research shows a relationship between the physical environment of schools and student achievement.-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The debate over how to improve education usually focuses on changing the textbooks, the learning standards, teacher training and hiring practices, and other big shakeups
to the system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.capitalpress.com/Oregon/20150623/portlands-zenger-farm-bridges-urban-rural-divide&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSMzA1MzA3NDYzMDk2NjAwNDMyMhpiN2ExNWJhZmNiZmU4OTQzOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNGlCuW1iAksMuz9RDKBcw1JkUI49w"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Portland's
Zenger Farm bridges urban, rural divide </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Capital press
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Zenger's programs help them value the farming lifestyle and farmers as well, Dolby said. ... “That urban piece is what makes us unique,”
she said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.opb.org/news/article/starfish-are-still-disappearing-from-northwest-waters/"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">Starfish
Are Still Disappearing From Northwest Waters</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Oregon Public Broadcasting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A couple of years ago, divers in Puget Sound began to notice something odd: Starfish were disappearing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The sea creatures would get sores and then melt into piles of mush. Sea star wasting syndrome is a gruesome disease and it spread to starfish all along the West Coast. Scientists
still dont know a lot about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2015/06/21/plan-help-salmon-habitat-faces-new-challenge/29064731/"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">$700M
Plan To Help Salmon Habitat Faces new Challenge</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Salem Statesman Journal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A massive federal habitat restoration effort in the Columbia River Basin has spent more than $700 million on breaching levies, restoring tidal channels, reconnecting floodplains
and other actions meant to boost salmon and steelhead populations imperiled by hydroelectric dams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://blogs.usda.gov/2015/06/30/in-oregon-finding-the-lost-river-whychus/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMjQ1OTYwODcyMzI1MTgzNzk1MDIaYTU3YzViY2I2NmNmYTVlMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEoLLToNf2SZEDm-wrZuJGjZltopw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">In
Oregon, Finding the Lost River Whychus </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">USDA.gov (press release) (blog)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">It provided more than half of the steelhead spawning habitat in the Upper Deschutes River Basin. The river had several names, but in
1855, when ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.hoodrivernews.com/news/2015/jun/24/cl-nestletownhall/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoSMzA1MzA3NDYzMDk2NjAyMzQ0MhoyZDBhYjNkOWM5OTVlZmExOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNFCQhbBB7tWJXswEKBwd5ZLvxVeeA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Cascade
Locks holds town hall on Nestlé </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Hood River News
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">To make the deal possible, Cascade Locks and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife filed a cross water rights transfer with the
Oregon Water ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ktvn.com/story/29392062/city-of-reno-continues-to-support-regional-planning-efforts&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoSMzA1MzA3NDYzMDk2NjAyNTY5Mho4MTlmNmUyODViM2Y2ZWQwOmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNFE59c6bmlZlz6Qmt0NlwfDVcLgCA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">City
of Reno Continues to Support Regional Planning Efforts </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">KTVN
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Address the representation on the Regional Planning Governing Board to become more equitable between the three governments that make
up the ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/06/29/burning-man-and-bureau-of-land-management-in-standoff-over-choco-tacos&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTU4MDc0NjQ4NTU4NTIwOTkxNzQyGmYwMTQxZDQzOGI2ZWFlNTQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHXTquplVHFf5qNQ7NB4XrrVgLZiQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Burning
Man and Bureau of Land Management in Standoff Over Choco Tacos </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">SF Weekly (blog)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">Now comes a standoff between festival organizers and the Bureau of Land Management. The Reno Gazette-Journal reported last week that
BLM ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2015/06/damascus_disincorporation_de-a.html#incart_river"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">Damascus
Disincorporation, De-Annexation Bills Pass Senate</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Portland Oregonian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The trio of house bills aiming to see the city of Damascus disincorporated by the end of 2016, and make it easier for residents to individually de-annex in the meantime,
passed the Senate Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://registerguard.com/rg/opinion/33213721-78/put-end-to-fire-borrowing.html.csp"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">Put
End To Fire Borrowing Merkley Bill Would Protect Spending For Prevention – Opinion</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Eugene Register-Guard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The cost of fighting megafires in Oregon and other western states has skyrocketed in recent years, devouring funds that the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management
need for wildfire prevention including vitally important programs that treat forests to make them less vulnerable to fires.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://registerguard.com/rg/opinion/33213675-78/blm-plan-slights-counties.html.csp&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoSMTU1NjAzNTkzMTQyNjIxMzk0MhoxZTU1YWIzM2VlN2IzNmQ0OmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNFr1mKRy0LYn7da8sMJiiNFHXIn3g"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">BLM
plan slights counties </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">The Register-Guard
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">... Bureau of Land Management's draft plan for managing forests in Western Oregon — including more than 2 million acres of land that
once belonged ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20150617/NEWS/150619616"><span style="color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#558ED5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;text-decoration:none">Swanson
Will Continue Fight For Increased BLM Timber Harvest</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Medford Mail Tribune<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A federal appeals court ruling against Glendale-based timber company Swanson Group is just a temporary setback, predicts company President Steve Swanson. Swanson is in the
midst of two lawsuits against the Bureau of Land Management. Both lawsuits claim the BLM has violated the O&C Act of 1937 by harvesting less timber than the law mandates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/06/wildfire_near_john_day_fossil.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTODY2NDg3OTcxMTQwOTExNTI2MTIaMWU1NWFiMzNlZTdiMzZkNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGFf2QA5wt3hOi1d47YrfY9VbFL3w"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Wildfire
near John Day Fossil Beds grows to 5500 acres in hours (PHOTOS) </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">OregonLive.com
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">The Sugarloaf Fire is burning in on U.S. Bureau of Land Management land between the small communities of Kimberly and Dayville, the
Oregon ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ktvz.com/news/fire-near-dayville-at-4600-acres-crews-watch-for-new-starts/33835214&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU4MDc0NjQ4NTU4NTIwOTk5MDkyGjA5ZGRjMzIzMTJjYzFhYzk6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNE32gAjIibRbtbzOu4Gqqw8r5jD0A"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Central
Oregon crews tackling several new wildfires </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">KTVZ
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">More than 200 firefighters worked Monday to contain a lightning-sparked fire north of Dayville that has blackened over 4,600 acres,
as crews tackled ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://union-bulletin.com/news/2015/jun/29/wildfires-scorch-region/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTU4MDc0NjQ4NTU4NTIwOTk5MDkyGjA5ZGRjMzIzMTJjYzFhYzk6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHX4AxXA3-BwutpOKe98NcfqFkfTQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Wildfires</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
scorch region </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">#Among the major Oregon fires were the Buckskin fire 10 miles southwest of Cave Junction near the Oregon-California border, the Bunker Hill fire 30 ...</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.ktvz.com/news/as-crews-fight-more-oregon-wildfires-holiday-caution-urged/33873316&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTMjQ1OTYwODcyMzI1MTgzODUxNDIaMDlkZGMzMjMxMmNjMWFjOTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFnMTSiexnfz7_cutYE2xFffwhc7Q"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Wildfire
near Dayville aces across 6000 acres as heat lingers </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#737373">KTVZ
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#252525">At 6 a.m. Wednesday, the Oregon Department of Forestry Team 1 will assume joint command of the Corner Creek, Sugarloaf and Incident
296 fires.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sadie K Carney</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> | Rural Policy Analyst/Communications Manager</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation and Development</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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