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Portland pauses $2 billion water filtration plant pending land use dispute
The Portland Water Bureau will pause construction on its 2 billion dollar Bull Run water filtration system east of Gresham, following a dispute between Oregon land use officials and Multnomah County.
Potential for protecting Owyhee Canyonlands takes urgency in final months of Biden administration
More than a million acres of wildlands in Eastern Oregon could be preserved through federal legislation or a monument declaration from the president. This could be the last chance for the Owyhee Canyonlands to see additional protections for years.
Groups spar over protecting farms or making way for semiconductor industry in Hillsboro
Industry leaders and elected officials made their case for expanding Hillsboro’s urban growth boundary to bolster Oregon's semiconductor industry at a hearing yesterday. But some residents and farmers say the proposal is unjustified.
Chinook Indian Nation closer to securing ancestral winter village land
A Washington state task force voted to recommend the return of land at a former youth detention facility to the Chinook Indian Nation. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and the fiscal committees of the Legislature will review the task force report in June and make a decision.
Chinese billionaire owns hundreds of thousands of acres of Oregon timberland, report reveals
Tianqiao Chen, with nearly 200,000 acres in Oregon, is the second largest foreign owner of U.S. land, according to land ownership publication The Land Report. His stake has drawn ire from an Oregon Republican.
This former Southwest Washington juvenile detention facility’s land may return to Chinook Indian Nation
A task force created by the Washington State Office of Financial Management may soon recommend the return of nearly 23 acres to the Chinook Indian Nation, including buildings that could support the cultural survival of the first people of that land.
How land trusts overlap with the land back movement in Oregon
Land trusts in Oregon are beginning to transform from their white-led roots, toward models based on Indigenous values and leadership.
Business
Indie businesses thrive as Lloyd Center mall reinvents itself — again
Rumors of the Lloyd Center's death have been greatly exaggerated. Developers of the iconic Portland shopping mall are focusing on community feel as they plot next steps.
For the first time in generations, this tribe in Washington has land
The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe has purchased thousands of acres of ancestral forestlands in East King County.
Timber company returns waterfront Washington property to tribe
A family-owned company with timber operations in the U.S. and New Zealand called Port Blakely Companies has returned waterfront property and tidelands on Little Skookum Inlet in Washington's Mason County to the Squaxin Island Tribe, at no cost.