Land Use

The first Native American parks director in U.S. history discusses the role of public lands in American life, the importance of Indigenous knowledge in stewardship and the consequences of Trump’s budget cuts.

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.

President Donald Trump has nominated a longtime oil and gas industry representative to oversee an agency that manages a quarter-billion acres of public land concentrated in western states.

A roughly 2,000-acre parcel of land in Southern Oregon that was likely the location of a historic treaty signing is returningn to the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.

The sale comes four years after the museum closed.

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.

The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals has reversed a change to fire protection requirements implemented by the Josephine County Commissioners.

From 2017 to 2022 Oregon lost 4% of its farmland, according to the newly released 2022 Census of Agriculture conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Gov. Tina Kotek will once again push for a bill to make it easier for cities to add land for housing. On the latest episode of OPB Politics Now, reporters Dirk VanderHart and Lauren Dake discuss the bill, how it was derailed in the Legislature and why the governor thinks this time may be different.

The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs argue that Deschutes County’s latest decision on the resort project showed a disregard for Indigenous knowledge, but the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals says “it is not our role to reweigh the evidence.”