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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green">Welcome to this week’s roundup of the Land Use News!</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121"><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.koin.com/news/civic-affairs/washington-parks-20-year-master-plan-okd/1049622799&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU1NzQ4MDEyMDgzODMzNTM0MzQyGjY4NTk1MTEzZWM0OTEwMGU6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNG5BFK1tS9MQAopf4jxeyKbUgkLLQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Washington
Park's 20-year master plan OK'd </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">KOIN.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">"Wish I didn't have to," Kirsch told KOIN 6 News, "but where we live there is very little public transportation." Some of the biggest
changes under this plan are in the area above the Rose Garden near the tennis courts where a big greenhouse, food carts and some new buildings are planned.<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://www.thechronicleonline.com/news/columbia-riverkeeper-challenges-port-westward-expansion/article_b95dd57d-0811-5d5c-80db-a9df16744cdb.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTE3ODcxNjk3MjkxNTU2MTc2NjcyGjFlNTVhYjMzZWU3YjM2ZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHmOvt5upkbzVU_ann76xyEeGS5EQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Columbia
Riverkeeper challenges Port Westward expansion </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">St. Helens Chronicle
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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 vote marked Port of St. Helens' second rezone request at Port Westward, reviving efforts to expand its industrial boundary after farmer
and business owner Mike Seely and Columbia Riverkeeper's legal challenge to the rezone prevailed at the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals in 2014.<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/2018/03/allow_development_of_northwest.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTIwNzYwMzk4MzgzMDUyODkxNzgyGjAzYTAwZWQ0MzQ3ZjU2NzQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHcFzKHvYO7RrPxRbnYfKVMI6n1FQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Allow
development of Northwest Hillsboro: Letter to the editor </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><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"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">28 guest opinion, "Let's face the truth about Oregon's housing crisis." House Bill 4075, which would have corrected a grievous error committed by a previous Legislature
where they downgraded previously zoned urban reserve property (1,700 acres in the northwest Hillsboro part of Washington County) to rural reserve, died in committee. It needs to be resurrected and passed.<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://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2018/03/15/marion-county-solar-vs-farmland-fight-brings.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU1NzQ4MDEyMDgzODMzNTQ5NTkyGmIxZTFhNDBlOGVjNGIwYmM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNGOLHT135w1YQRxxwu5mk4H650PQw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Marion
County</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none"> solar vs. farmland fight brings moratorium, push for compromise
</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Portland 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">In Marion County, the morning hearing brought out an overflow crowd. Many landowners spoke in favor of new restrictions. Some feared that
allowing solar would result in the permanent loss of farmland, leading to home-building or other feared development, although the conditional use permits granted ...<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/tv/2018/03/directors_of_the_netflix_docus.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTU1NzQ4MDEyMDgzODMzNTU0NzAyGmIzZTMxYTA0Mzg5YWY4ZTY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEFOejwLaDDzrHIZhKYWtgg9aNKJw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Directors
of the Netflix Rajneeshees docuseries talk about 'the craziest story' in Oregon history
</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><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">Directors Maclain Way, left, and Chapman Way went through hundreds of hours of archival footage for their Netflix docuseries, "Wild Wild
Country," which tells the strange-but-true story of an Indian guru named Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and his followers' attempts to build a city in rural Oregon in the early 1980’s<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://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/03/13/1421112/0/en/Paramount-Gold-Nevada-Receives-Approvals-From-Oregon-State-Regulators-for-Its-First-Two-Baseline-Data-Reports.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoUMTU1NzQ4MDEyMDgzODMzNTQ0NDAyGmUzMmMzOTk4ZWJjNjNlN2E6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFFqaThT0m6B8qMWkb8ZlqQAX58YA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Paramount
Gold Nevada Receives Approvals From Oregon State Regulators </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">GlobeNewswire (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">WINNEMUCCA, Nev., March 13, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paramount Gold Nevada Corp. (NYSE American:PZG) ("Paramount”) reported today that
the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (“DOGAMI”) and the Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) have approved and accepted the first two baseline environmental reports required for the permitting of Paramount’s proposed Grassy Mountain
gold mine in 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.dailyastorian.com/Local_News/20180314/astoria-eyes-enterprise-zone-expansion&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU1NzQ4MDEyMDgzODMzNTQ2MjkyGjY3MzBjYmFmYjM0OTAyNGY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFCzNhN6OEeCI03YuwD5oaFSFrqRw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Astoria
eyes enterprise zone expansion </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Daily Astorian
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Enterprise zones</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525"> are used as tools to encourage development by offering property
tax exemptions. Oregon has 69 enterprise zones, the majority of them in rural areas. The Clatsop Enterprise Zone, established in 2015, includes sites in Warrenton and nearby unincorporated areas.<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.capitalpress.com/Water/20180315/environmentalists-file-lawsuit-claiming-dams-harm-fish-in-willamette-basin&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU1NzQ4MDEyMDgzODMzNTUxMzIyGmE1N2M1YmNiNjZjZmE1ZTA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHJaXz305MtURR9GpIX7RsD5DfTAw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Environmentalists
file lawsuit claiming dams harm fish in Willamette Basin </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Capital Press
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Research conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows that, historically, around 325,000 Chinook salmon and 220,000 winter steelhead swamp
up Willamette Falls to spawn in the upper river basin.<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/goal-protecting-deschutes-river-wildlife-irrigation/716423764&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU1NzQ4MDEyMDgzODMzNTY4NjIyGjBiNTJlNjJiODUyNDA4MDA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNGWVBZv9iHHEwndbzq4dBGY5RVaZg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Goal:
protecting Deschutes River wildlife, irrigation </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><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">The Deschutes River has seen many changes over the years, and now, organizations are coming together to ensure that it can be sustainable
in the future. One of the biggest problems is making sure that fish populations are able to survive in the Deschutes and other rivers across the Deschutes Basin.<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.capitalpress.com/Oregon/20180314/oregon-county-approves-scaled-back-rural-housing-zone&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU1NzQ4MDEyMDgzODMzNTQ5ODMyGjEzMzhkOGYyZjY1YjFmNGE6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHVrr5WfCt4FqSHeDtl8r_teNoWlA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Oregon</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
county approves scaled-back rural housing zone </span></a></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="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Even so, Cubic acknowledges the county's experiment with the “rural open space” designation is a test case for Oregon. The county has
tried to resolve concerns raised by Oregon's Department of Land Conservation and Development, which administers the statewide land use planning system, he said.<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/front-porch/index.ssf/2018/03/portland_weighs_reviving_tax_b.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU1NzQ4MDEyMDgzODMzNTM5NTMyGjM4MTMwN2UzMjUwZWJmMmI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNE0hbBaZp5ELRBFNZwIWPnGD6RNaA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Portland
weighs reviving tax breaks for affordable apartments </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><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">But the units are only required to remain affordable for 10 years, compared to the 99-year affordability requirement baked into the city's
inclusionary zoning policy, or the of up to 30 years under federal tax credits for low-income housing. The MULTE program was had been popular among developers.<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.kgw.com/article/weather/earthquakes/cascadia-quake-could-injure-27000-and-displace-85000/283-528827359&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU1NzQ4MDEyMDgzODMzNTUzMTMyGjUzNDlkYWQ0Y2E1Y2JlODU6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHywX4bG1uoT1dw9zZJP0OtEN6TcQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Study
projects damage from rare Portland Hills quake, Cascadia earthquake </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">kgw.com
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) conducted the study of a 9.0 magnitude earthquake's potential impacts on Clackamas, Multnomah and
Washington counties in order to estimate the worst-case scenario</span><o:p></o:p></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://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/689266/oregon-earthquake-ring-of-fire-united-states-pacific-john-bauer-regional-disaster-prepared&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBSoUMTU1NzQ4MDEyMDgzODMzNTUzMTMyGjUzNDlkYWQ0Y2E1Y2JlODU6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNH5CAD5s5NKRmV0XsqUPUZOXZgVmQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Feared
Big One earthquake on Ring of Fire 'will leave tens of thousands dead' </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Daily Star
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">A massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake in the notorious Ring of Fire zone would cause chaos, panic-stricken people to flee their homes and billions of pounds of damage,
a report has found. The study covers populous regions of the US state, Oregon, which lies on the edge of the Pacific Ocean.<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://kval.com/news/local/new-study-shows-cascadia-subduction-zone-earthquake-could-injure-as-many-as-27000-people&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoUMTU1NzQ4MDEyMDgzODMzNTUzMTMyGjUzNDlkYWQ0Y2E1Y2JlODU6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNGTm4tG9vy0swFN7tPZ1vMO5vx9Cw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">New
study shows Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could injure as many as 27000 people
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">A new study by the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) says a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could injure as many as 27,000 people
in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties.<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.dailyastorian.com/Local_News/20180314/tsunami-sirens-may-go-up-in-warrenton&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCCoUMTE3ODcxNjk3MjkxNTU2MjA1MTUyGjUzNDlkYWQ0Y2E1Y2JlODU6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHcmY7rwCdIkyg3Wsfl8N_TAiljbw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Tsunami</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
sirens may go up in Warrenton </span></a></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"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">WARRENTON — A devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan triggered a warning up and down the Oregon Coast. The warning turned out to be unnecessary for the
most part, but it marked the moment when a number of people in Astoria and Warrenton found out their cities did not have tsunami warning sirens.<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/environment/index.ssf/2018/03/zinke_oil_gas_exploration_off.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTE3ODcxNjk3MjkxNTU2MTc2NTQyGjc1MmFjMzdmZTEzOTNiZGU6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNENKCQjkYtZ-GgZFXJkh6g5HnA98Q"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Zinke:
Oil, gas exploration off Oregon coast might not happen </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><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">Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke expressed doubt Tuesday that oil and gas exploration will happen off the Pacific coast as part of the Trump
administration's proposal to dramatically expand offshore leasing, saying California, Oregon and Washington have "no known resources of any weight" for energy companies to extract.<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.bendbulletin.com/localstate/6081938-151/eastern-oregon-river-could-provide-framework-for-water&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTIwNzYwMzk4MzgzMDUyODkyOTcyGjJkMGFiM2Q5Yzk5NWVmYTE6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHgsEN80LY9JPLkZPQny7LHcUmj2w"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Eastern
Oregon river could provide framework for water sharing </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Bend Bulletin
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Bellis said the current system can leave irrigation districts with junior water rights with less water than they need, which can force them to aggressively draw
down reservoirs in Central 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=https://phys.org/news/2018-03-invasive-western-juniper-grasses.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTE3ODcxNjk3MjkxNTU2MjA0MDEyGmU5OGM5MjUyY2VmODhhYTM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHhEO0_fADZSY6LSm0824Cr5fzIvQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Cutting
and leaving invasive western juniper may lead to increase in invasive grasses </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Phys.Org
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Much of the focus of attention is habitat recovery of some of the ecosystem's notable inhabitants, including the greater sage-grouse, Oregon's prized mule deer herds
and many other important wildlife species found in the sagebrush steppe.<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://williamsonsource.com/successful-transit-stories/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTE3ODcxNjk3MjkxNTU2MjA3MDQyGjY4NTk1MTEzZWM0OTEwMGU6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEW0-7USg_wcf1om7bE9z3IWXPQ7g"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Successful
Transit Stories </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Williamson Source
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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">Portland, Oregon has had a dedicated bus transit system and light rail since 1977. The system reaches its fingers throughout the city.
It is used by everyone, not just to get to work and back, but by tourists to go to attractions accessible from the line, and on the weekends by whole families to get from place to place.<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://wamc.org/post/adirondack-park-agency-proposes-redefining-travel-corridors-include-recreational-trails&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU1NzQ4MDEyMDgzODMzNTQyOTkyGjIxOGY2NjUzZTI3ODhiZTA6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHoBGiHApLFWxJVbYN-7oWEaQ932g"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Adirondack
Park Agency</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none"> Proposes Redefining Travel Corridors To Include Recreational Trails
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">WAMC
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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">New York state wants to replace a stretch of train tracks in the Adirondacks with a recreational trail for bicycling, walking, snowmobiling
and other uses. But after losing a lawsuit, the Adirondack Park Agency is now proposing a change in the Adirondack land-use plan in hopes of clearing the way for the ...<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:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation and Development</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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