State board won’t weigh Indigenous treaty rights in fight over Central Oregon’s Thornburgh resort site

By Emily Cureton Cook (OPB)
Jan. 17, 2024 11:28 p.m. Updated: Jan. 18, 2024 6:39 p.m.

The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs argue that Deschutes County’s latest decision on the resort project contained “implicit cultural bias,” but the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals says “it is not our role to reweigh the evidence.”