Collaborating toward forest health, harvest
A brighter future for Northeast Oregon’s wood products industry is on the horizon if a collaborative effort focused on improving forest health and bolstering the regional economy succeeds.
Year: 2012
Oregon’s green portable classroom effort advances
Portland State University is moving forward with its effort to build green portable classrooms with a finalized design and plans to build the first two prototypes this summer. The effort, launched in response to the demand for portable classrooms, is an Oregon Solutions project — carrying the support of Gov. John Kitzhaber.
How Oregon Networks for Solutions
Here’s an innovative idea: Pull all the key stakeholders together around a key community-level priority and solve the problem. Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, via an executive order issued last December, created the infrastructure for this to happen, calling it the “Oregon Solutions Network.”
Gateway Green supporters optimistic about talks
People advocating for development of a unique Northeast Portland park recently got one step closer to realizing their vision.
Kitzhaber talks housing, poplars and biomass
Gov. John Kitzhaber, on the first day of a three-day swing through Eastern Oregon, talked Monday about bringing affordable housing to the working people of Morrow County during a stop at Boardman City Hall. The Oregon Solutions team in Boardman met with Kitzhaber for an hour to discuss building more market-rate rental housing. Kitzhaber said … Read more
Build It and They Will Come: Juvenile Chinook Salmon Found at Delta Ponds and Heron Slough!
For the first time in over 60 years, juvenile spring Chinook salmon can swim freely through newly created side channels of the Willamette River at Delta Ponds and Heron Slough.