As Michael Cloughesy of the Oregon Forest Resources Institute told me yesterday, a web of factors are contributing to this year’s historic conflagrations, and new policies need to account for all of them.
Just as we can’t take our corporate assets for granted, so too do we need to steward our natural assets carefully, especially since Oregon forests are key economic assets.
On that note: Check out our story on new development underway in Mosier, a tiny Columbia Gorge town threatened last year by the oil train derailment and now by forest fires.
Sen. Ron Wyden is scheduled to speak on the Senate floor this morning about on the Oregon wildfires and his work to get the president to include a fix on wildfire funding in the disaster aid package.
Heritage, a small, 90-year-old, Olympia-based community institution, seems to be bucking the trend. Read Kim’s Q&A here.
In what is becoming a depressingly common announcement, Oregon announced it would join a coalition to block an order issued by President Trump, this time his decision to end DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The Eugene Register-Guard reports.
And finally, the OB editorial team has been on tenterhooks the past few months wondering who would move in to the space formerly occupied by Abercrombie and Fitch. Now we know. A new Capital One Cafe will occupy the prime retail space on the corner of Southwest Broadway and Morrison. The cafe is slated to open in 2018.
Not everyone is happy about the news.
Yamhill and Morrison have been eroded over the last few years by these type of uses. Killing the retail core. https://t.co/mqOUhKfNhS
— Don Arambula (@donarambula) August 28, 2017
Watch for a profile of Arambula on this page soon.