by Elliott Davis | Aug 2, 2018 | Public Lands News, Water Conservation News, Wildlife News
The Klamath Basin, spanning southern Oregon and northern California, contains five National Wildlife Refuges established to protect fish, wildlife, and waterfowl habitat. The Klamath Refuges serve as some of the most important bird habitat in North America with nearly... 
by Scott Hilgenberg | May 9, 2018 | Fighting Fossil Fuels Recent Cases, Land Use News
Take a drive down the winding rural roads north of Clatskanie, Oregon. Meandering through this part of Columbia County, one cannot help but feel a sense of appreciation while observing some of the best farmland in the country. On these agricultural lands in the... 
by McKenna Ganz | Aug 6, 2015 | Features, The Way We Work
In this installment of The Way We Work, we speak with Sid Friedman from Friends of Yamhill County. Crag Law Center has been working with Friends of Yamhill County through various land use projects, a large part of our work here at Crag. Crag has had dozens of these... 
by Courtney Johnson | Aug 27, 2014 | Fighting Fossil Fuels News, Land Use News, News & Victories
Today, Crag celebrates with our longtime client Columbia Riverkeeper another victory for protection of the Columbia River. In a unanimous decision, the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) rejected the Port of St. Helens’ proposal to rezone 837 acres of farmland... 
by Courtney Johnson | Mar 7, 2014 | Blog, Features
In addition to the regulatory framework that governs decision-making for individual development proposals, Oregon’s land use laws include a process for future planning for the growth of cities and, concurrently, the protection of rural areas around those cities....