Month: June 2023

Oregon News

Land Protection Guarantee

A newly released management plan for the Owyhee Canyonlands in Oregon will bring greater protections for more than 400,000 acres of public land. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s proposed Southeastern Oregon Resource Management Plan Amendment has been 20 years in the making. The region is viewed as a crucial wildlife corridor and also important […]

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Oregon Wildfire Fault Verdict

A jury has found PacifiCorp liable for causing Oregon wildfires in 2020. Jurors ruled June 12 that energy provider PacifiCorp helped cause some of the state’s Labor Day 2020 wildfires. They also found the company owed more than $73 million to the 17 plaintiffs in James v. PacifiCorp, and jurors also decided to award punitive […]

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