Henry Sessions reports from Oak Ridge, Oregon on a former logging town that’s having some success moving from a timber economy to new jobs and industry. Four hundred jobs were lost when its largest employer, a local lumber mill ,shut down several years ago. But the community has capitalized on the its attractive location to […]
Henry Sessions of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on the pitched election battle between four-term Republican incumbent Bob Packwood and veteran Democratic Congressman Les AuCoin for the U.S. Senate. The race has largely become a referendum on the fate of the region’s forests, the northern spotted owl and the Endangered Species Act.
Henry Sessions of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on one of the most ambitious urban greenspace preservation programs in the country. The combined public-private effort aims to set aside as much land as possible in and around Portland, Oregon, the last big metropolitan area on the West Coast with a large amount of undeveloped land.
The Federal policy of “no net loss” of wetlands doesn’t mean wetlands can’t be destroyed. Developers who want to build an airport or shopping mall over wetlands can choose to “replicate” nature nearby. Henry Sessions of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on the varying successes of these substitutes.