Recently, LandWatch prevailed in a community effort to halt yet another instance of development interests seeking to convert agricultural land into rural sprawl.

A win at the Land Use Board of Appeals! Stopping industrial sprawl between Bend and Redmond.

On March 23, the Deschutes County Planning Commission voted 3 to 1 in favor of recommending approval of Central Oregon LandWatch’s application to amend the county’s zoning code to limit new destination resort development.

LandWatch recently celebrated a win at the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA). In February, LUBA ruled in LandWatch’s favor regarding a decades-old facility on land outside Sisters. This win sets an important precedent by invalidating a misinterpretation of state and local land use law and will help prevent fragmentation of the agricultural land base in Deschutes County.

LandWatch recently reached a settlement with an applicant seeking a permit from Deschutes County to operate a commercial events center in conjunction with a honey production and processing facility on farmland.

Industrial sprawl between Bend and Redmond? Not on our watch.

We filed an appeal to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals over 142 acres in Jefferson County.

We're going to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals.

On January 4, Central Oregon LandWatch filed a Notice of Intent to Appeal the Deschutes County Board of County Commissioners’ (BOCC) decision to remove agricultural land protections on 710 acres near Terrebonne.

A new destination resort in Crook County is officially off the books.

A letter from Ben Gordon, Executive Director

On August 17, Deschutes County Commissioners will determine the fate of 710 acres in the Lower Bridge Valley near Terrebonne.

On August 17, Deschutes County Commissioners will determine the fate of 710 acres in the Lower Bridge Valley near Terrebonne.

After nearly five years of ongoing appeals, we are happy to announce a victory for farmland in Jefferson County! Last month, the Jefferson County Planning Commission denied an application for development on agricultural land just south of Madras. 

Early this spring, LandWatch testified in opposition to a proposal to remove agricultural land protections on 710 acres near Terrebonne, to rezone the property for rural residential development. We took a stand alongside neighboring farmers and ranchers to protect this area for farm use. Here is the update.

Determined to protect Oregon’s biggest trees east of the Cascades, LandWatch and five other environmental organizations filed a lawsuit against the Forest Service over its decision to allow logging of large and old trees in national forests across Central and Eastern Oregon.

On April 19, 2022, Central Oregon LandWatch filed an appeal to the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners (BOCC) over an application related to a proposed sewer project in Tumalo.

An application to rezone 710-acres from farmland to rural residential is scheduled for a hearing next Tuesday.

We’re committed to protecting Central Oregon’s farmland. So, last month, we filed a legal challenge at the Land Use Board of Appeals to do just that.

Our role as watchdog is to sound the alarm and draw attention to threats to the quality of life of our region and the very land beneath us.