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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green">Welcome to this roundup of the Land Use News! Happy Holidays!</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#427FED;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://www.drought.gov/drought/news/drought-christmas-tree-industry"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#427FED;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://www.drought.gov/drought/news/drought-christmas-tree-industry"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Is
Drought Slowing Down the Christmas Tree Industry?</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">National Integrated Drought Information System
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">According to recent news reports (<a href="https://www.app.com/story/money/business/main-street/2018/12/19/christmas-trees-national-shortage/2344552002/" target="_blank" id="anch_83"><span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">USA
Today</span></a>, <a href="https://www.wjhg.com/content/news/Nationwide-Christmas-tree-shortage-affecting-the-Panhandle.html" target="_blank" id="anch_84">
<span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">WJHG</span></a>, <a href="https://www.journalpatriot.com/news/christmas-tree-shortage-reported/article_10806170-ffa9-11e8-8219-dfbe85065f8d.html" target="_blank" id="anch_85">
<span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">Wilkes Journal-Patriot</span></a>), the United States has been experiencing a nationwide Christmas tree shortage, along with price hikes as a result of low supplies. The U.S. Christmas tree industry is a $2 billion
a year industry, according to <a href="http://www.statista.com/statistics/209238/mean-average-dollars-spent-on-rea-and-fake-christmas-trees-in-the-us/" target="_blank" id="anch_86">
<span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">annual reports</span></a> from the National Christmas Tree Association.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#427FED;text-decoration:none"><a href="http://www.cbbulletin.com/441940.aspx"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Study Looks at How Carbon Emissions
Absorbed by Ocean Impact Salmon’s Sense of Smell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">The Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife News Bulletin
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">The ability to smell is critical for salmon. They depend on scent to avoid predators, sniff out prey and find their way home at the end
of their lives when they return to the streams where they hatched to spawn and die. New research from the University of Washington and NOAA Fisheries' Northwest Fisheries Science Center shows this powerful sense of smell might be in trouble as carbon emissions
continue to be absorbed by our ocean.<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://katu.com/news/local/house-speaker-to-introduce-plans-for-denser-housing&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNDY2MzA5MzQyODg4OTkxMDgwODIaMDNhMDBlZDQzNDdmNTY3NDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEkg0xXPHek6XP1GCG-9WYSfZQUaw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">House
Speaker pushes plan for denser housing in Oregon </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="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Similar to Portland’s Residential Infill Project, one Oregon legislator says she’s planning to introduce a plan to increase density in
large cities across the state. House Speaker, Rep. Tina Kotek, wants Oregon cities with more than 10,000 people to allow duplexes, triplexes, and four-plexes in areas zoned for single families.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://slate.com/business/2018/12/oregon-is-looking-at-ending-single-family-zoning.html"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">America's Hottest
Housing Debate Is Coming to Oregon</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Slate Magazine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">It took a minute, but America is finally warming up to a revolutionary construction paradigm that could shorten commutes, lower housing
costs, and ease the way to racial and socioeconomic integration in cities and suburbs: the apartment.<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.opb.org/news/article/elliott-state-forest-oregon-research-state-university/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoTNDY2MzA5MzQyODg4OTkwOTA1OTIaMWU1NWFiMzNlZTdiMzZkNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFVMYVfBAWLl4OcaDvcOuM97U2_KA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Oregon</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
Moves On Plan To Repurpose The Elliott State Forest For Research </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="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">After years of struggling to figure out what to do with the Elliott State Forest, Oregon officials now have a proposal they like. Members
of the State Land Board voted Tuesday to start work on a plan to transfer the 80,000-acre forest near Coos Bay to Oregon State University.<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.thewildlifenews.com/2018/12/19/whats-really-going-on-with-the-trump-attack-on-federal-sage-grouse-plans/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNDY2MzA5MzQyODg4OTkwOTk3NTIaM2Y2Y2FjMjhiMDRmMGVjNjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGXhcGANLToV2YKbLty_BzIUafuGQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">What's
really going on with the Trump attack on federal sage grouse plans </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">The Wildlife News
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">When the Bureau of Land Management released its final analysis on sage grouse plan changes in early December, a flurry of media stories
trumpeted the reduction of protected sage-grouse habitat from 10 million to 1.8 million acres of federal land. That sounds like a big bad deal, but the reality is even worse. The plan amendments would undercut sage-grouse protections across 83 million acres
of sage-grouse habitat in the west by stripping away mandatory and measurable protections, and giving states and industries that sued to dismantle the 2015 Obama-era sage-grouse plans everything they asked for in their lawsuits.<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.ifiberone.com/columbia_basin/landmark-agreement-improves-hydropower-profits-and-salmon-recovery-rates/article_0800d4e4-030f-11e9-9ec2-0fe78f01967e.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNDY2MzA5MzQyODg4OTkwNzIzNDIaYTU3YzViY2I2NmNmYTVlMDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEI4XBBpDc6Wc9fpEMUEsLBxenFoQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Landmark
agreement improves hydropower profits and salmon recovery rates </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">iFIBER One News
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Many years of disagreements and legal wrangling over how water is spilled over dams on the Columbia and Lower Snake Rivers will finally
quell today with the announcement of a landmark compromise. The agreement between tribal leaders, the federal government, and the states of Washington and Oregon will be recorded Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Portland, and promises to increase to survival
rate of juvenile salmon while also lessening the financial impacts to hydropower generation at the dams.<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=https://www.ktvz.com/news/redmond-planning-commission-backs-expansion-projects/938657009&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNDY2MzA5MzQyODg4OTkxMTE3MTIaYTYwZWJhODRjZGI0NjM1Yzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGcbmYaJHzJTLc1JBv1wN2lnxGT9g"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Redmond
Planning Commission backs expansion projects </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">The Oregon Department of State Lands, Deschutes County, and Redmond are collaborating to make these proposed land changes a reality.<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://djcoregon.com/news/2018/12/17/four-ugb-expansions-approved-portland-metro-area/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNDY2MzA5MzQyODg4OTkwODExMjIaZmM2NjUwZjQ1YzRiMTlmODpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHCDsU6_s5eIls19BXuh8nABDh5Kg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Four
UGB expansions approved in Portland-metro area </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 Journal of Commerce
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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 Metro Council voted unanimously Thursday to approve four urban growth boundary expansions and open up 2,181 acres of land for future 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=https://www.planetizen.com/blogs/102053-phimby-realistic&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNDY2MzA5MzQyODg4OTkwNzM5MzIaYTI4ZTJkYWVjZWQwMTc4ZTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFAlwcAOSe4sVBo5aZTgWGZB0B9JQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Is
PHIMBY Realistic? </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">Planetizen
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">As NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) activists have become more successful in using zoning codes to block new housing, housing supply in many
metro areas has <a href="https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/why-manhattan-so-expensive-5820.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">lagged behind</span></a> demand, causing housing prices to rise. In response, a YIMBY (Yes
In My Back Yard) movement has arisen in <a href="https://twitter.com/OpenNYForAll" target="_blank"><span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">a few</span></a> high-cost metros; YIMBYs seek to fight for new housing, taking on NIMBYs and (usually) allying
with residential developers. YIMBYs focus heavily on zoning reform; they seek to reduce or eliminate government regulations that restrain housing supply.<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=https://newyorkcity.urbdezine.com/2018/12/17/new-york-citys-self-induced-transportation-crisis-citylab/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNDY2MzA5MzQyODg4OTkxMDQ5MDIaMDk0MGYxZDEwODIwMWU5ODpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEbjvbzlKqaHLXNtOFMqiB8hIPp8Q"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">New
York City's Self-Induced Transportation Crisis – CityLab </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">CityLab<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">The story of e-bikes in New York City is like a transportation parable. Until last spring,
<a href="https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/04/why-new-york-city-stopped-building-subways/557567/">
<span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">as subways were slowing</span></a>,
<a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/12/how-to-fix-new-york-citys-unsustainable-traffic-woes/548798/&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwib-qHxzZrfAhUNU98KHaykBukQFggFMAA&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=011155507021793277500:i_zshozo_su&usg=AOvVaw0_vxsB8ZVB0Zha8swXf8g4">
<span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">traffic from ride-hailing vehicles was thickening</span></a>, and
<a href="https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/the-incredibly-cheap-street-fix-that-saves-lives/551498/">
<span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">bike fatalities were on the rise</span></a>, e-bikes were illegal to ride. That was in spite of the fact that these increasingly popular battery-boosted bicycles have long provided a vital means of transportation
for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/nyregion/are-electric-bikes-about-to-take-over-new-york.html">
<span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">thousands of working New Yorkers making below minimum wag</span></a>e, are energy and space efficient, cost-effective, quiet, and quick.
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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://mountainjournal.org/shift-from-rural-to-urban-culture-has-big-consequences-for-american-west&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTNDY2MzA5MzQyODg4OTkwOTc0MDIaYjNlMzFhMDQzODlhZjhlNjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGBYLmiEqEFFWG5f3V59ZxUJWMyNw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">The
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">With their rugged natural beauty and mountains that make skiers salivate, places like the Methow Valley of northern Washington face a
tough decision. Struggle economically, relying on industries rapidly becoming automated like timber, agriculture, and mining, or sell out and allow the masses to come with their skis, bikes, and boots to recreate. Keep the place small and rural, or become
a Bend, Oregon, Jackson, Wyoming or Bozeman. As Mark Haggerty puts it, “if you have an airport, a national park, and a university, your problem is too much growth. If you don’t have one of those things, you’re probably losing people.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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