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Gov. Tina Kotek has released a map of state property that could be redeveloped for housing, hoping to offer new options to developers who say scarce land is limiting construction of new homes.
The map was born in 2021 when the Legislature passed Senate Bill 762 to “help Oregon modernize and improve wildfire ...
The Oregon Department of State Lands keeps a map of the vital waterways where the state's most iconic and vulnerable fish species are born.
Two senate bills are making their case as replacements to the state’s repealed wildfire hazard map. Senate Bill 83 and Senate ...
Lawmakers from both parties support scrapping Oregon's wildfire hazard map four years after devastating fires, saying it failed to accurately assess risk.
Senate Bill 83, which seeks to repeal the controversial wildfire hazard map and the related regulations, advanced today after ...
They said because the map was created by Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Forestry in a “landscape style way,” it led to flooded farm fields, for example, being labeled as ...
Vital waterways like Parrott Creek and many others are marked out in a newly updated map from the Oregon Department of State Lands. "We're going to go down down into an area where Parrott Creek ...