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Environmental Watchdog: Central Oregon LandWatch Executive Director Ben Gordon 🎧 [with podcast]

Gordon will lead the organization’s efforts to enforce Oregon’s land use laws and protect local rivers, farm lands and forests
Laurel Brauns

For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast, we talk with Ben Gordon, the head of Central Oregon LandWatch, a local environmental nonprofit. COLW has been working behind the scenes for decades to mitigate the effects of urban development and wasteful water use. Gordon started as the new executive director of Central Oregon LandWatch on June […]

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County Zoning Proposal Sparks Concerns

Religious freedom, wildlife protection rules at odds?
Hilary Corrigan

A Deschutes County proposal to allow churches in areas zoned to help deer, elk and antelope has a land use group and a state agency concerned about the impacts on wildlife that need undisturbed tracts of land for habitat, food and migration. A proposal before the county planning commission seeks to change the county’s comprehensive plan […]

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It’s Time to Tip the Scales for the Bend Central District

The potential of re-developing an area close to downtown Bend
The Source Staff

For the past several years, we have followed the advent of the Bend Central District with interest and enthusiasm. The potential of re-developing an area close to downtown Bend to make it an attractive, walkable place for people to live and work is something we can get behind. Bend is growing and rents in the […]

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Bend's Core Area Inspires Ideas

Of those who filled out the City’s online questionnaire, most ID transportation as the biggest issue
Chris Miller

Interest in developing Bend’s Core Area into an attractive area for living, doing business and traversing the city is increasing, according to reports from the City of Bend. The Core Area Project includes four areas included in Bend’s 2016 Urban Growth Boundary expansion: the Bend Central District, Hwy 20/Greenwood and KorPine—as well as the Greater […]

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Conservation in Central Oregon

When it comes to plugging into local environmental and conservation causes, these are groups to choose from
Mary Fleishmann

Bitterbrush Broads – Great Old Broads for Wilderness Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national nonprofit organization based in Durango, Colo. Currently, 40 Chapters of the Broads operate throughout the U.S., with four chapters in Oregon. The Central Oregon Bitterbrush Broads chapter is local to this region. The Broads are engaged in inspiring women […]

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River Warrior

Fighting to keep our waterways flowing
Avatar photo Richard Sitts

Tod Heisler might as well have river water running through his veins. He was recently hired as the director of the Rivers Conservation Program within Central Oregon LandWatch, and before that he led the Deschutes River Conservancy for 15 years. His 30 years of conservation experience began with the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C., […]

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Court Shoots Down OHV Trails in the Ochocos

Environmental groups call it a big win for elk and other habitat
Chris Miller

The fight over a proposed off-road vehicle route system in the Ochoco Mountains looks like it’s at an end, after U.S. District Court Judge Marco Hernandez ruled the U.S. Forest Service failed to satisfy its legal obligation to study wildlife impacts. Central Oregon LandWatch brought a legal challenge in federal court over the proposed 137-mile […]

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City Council Votes to Censure Boddie

Five members vote on reprimand for controversial councilor and House 54 candidate
Chris Miller

The Bend City Council has made a move to publicly reprimand one of its own. During Wednesday’s City Council meeting, Councilor Barb Campbell read a motion to censure Councilor Nathan Boddie, whose term ends in January and is running for Oregon House District 54. Councilors voted 5 to zero to censure Boddie. (Mayor Casey Roats was […]

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A Fisheries Pioneer

Amy Stewart was ODFW’s first district-wide female fish biologist
Brian Jennings

“I was told women belong in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant,” recalls former state Fish Biologist Amy Stuart of Prineville. In 1983, she was hired by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife as its first district-wide female fish biologist, based in Prineville. With natural resources degrees from Cornell and Colorado State Universitiy, she interviewed for […]

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Consent and Accountability

When assessing impropriety among public figures—or anyone else—two important words act as guidelines
The Source Staff

When assessing impropriety among public figures—or anyone else—two important words act as guidelines Upon review of the information we have gathered surrounding the accusations against City Councilor Nathan Boddie, we have deep concerns surrounding both consent and accountability. Since the advent of the #MeToo movement, more than a few people have wondered, perhaps overly dramatically, […]

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