A local forest landscape restoration program will get $3 million in federal infrastructure funding to reduce fuels and improve portions of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest across Southern Oregon. The Rogue Basin Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project is among 15 landscape projects funded in eight states, according to news releases
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced Wednesday $11.67 million in federal funding headed to five collaborative forestry projects around Oregon, including a new project in the Rogue River basin and funding to keep the Deschutes Forest Collaborative Project’s decade of projects going for three more
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley held his 500th town hall Tuesday, April 5, in a virtual town hall for Lincoln County. Topics included plastic pollution, fossil fuels and affordable housing. Merkley said it is estimated that we consume a credit’s card worth of plastic a week. Plastics are either burned, buried
PORTLAND, Oregon — Construction is underway for a new behavioral health resource center on Southwest Park Avenue in downtown Portland, and Multnomah County is getting a major infusion of federal money to help build it. The county health department’s behavioral health resource center is set to open this fall. Once completed, the
Sen. Jeff Merkley braved a hailstorm and heavy rain when he paid a visit to Kellogg Dam on Tuesday, April 12. There were multiple reasons for his visit, said Neil Schulman, executive director of the North Clackamas Watersheds Council. One was to celebrate that the senator having secured $585,000 in community-initiated
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley held his 500th town hall Tuesday, April 5, in a virtual town hall for Lincoln County. Topics included plastic pollution, fossil fuels and affordable housing. Merkley said it is estimated that we consume a credit card worth of plastic a week. Plastics are either burned, buried
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Millions of federal dollars are going into a new behavioral health resource center in downtown Portland to help the homeless. Multnomah County bought the building on Southwest Park Avenue and the parking lot next door for $5 million and is spending millions more on renovating it.
Es posible que pronto se prohíba a los miembros del Congreso negociar acciones mientras estén en el cargo, ya que el apoyo bipartidista a la prohibición del comercio de acciones continúa creciendo. En ambos lados del pasillo, más de 125 legisladores han patrocinado o copatrocinado al menos una ley que apunta a prohibir el comercio de acciones individuales.
Wildlife conservation efforts across the United States are at a critical point. More than one-third of American species are at-risk of extinction and in need of proactive recovery. The Oregon Conservation Strategy, developed with the best available science, identifies 294 at-risk Oregon species and provides recommendations on how best to
Los senadores estadounidenses de Oregón, ambos demócratas, votaron con la mayoría para confirmar a Ketanji Brown Jackson como juez de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos. Tres republicanos se unieron a los 48 demócratas y los dos independientes que votaron con los demócratas por la confirmación el jueves 7 de abril La siguiente es una declaración del Senador Jeff
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