What do we want Deschutes County to look like in 20 years? The County is asking for your input on its draft update to the Comprehensive Plan.

On August 31, a federal judge made a sweeping recommendation to set aside an illegal Forest Service rule change made under the Trump administration.

Earlier this month, Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced an updated version of the River Democracy Act.

Environmental groups, including LandWatch, delivered more than 122,000 public comments urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) to protect mature and old-growth forests and trees on federal public lands from logging as a cornerstone of U.S. climate policy.

Forests pull carbon out of the atmosphere, and it accumulates in living trees and soil. In this way, mature forests act as carbon sinks, where the world’s forests absorb a net 7.6 billion metric tonnes of CO2 per year. Let the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management know large trees are worth more standing.

Oregon has the most miles of “impaired” waterways nationwide according to a recent report from The Environmental Integrity Project.

LCDC unanimously adopts new rules that will guide future development in Oregon’s largest urban areas.

More climate-friendly and equitable communities are ahead for Oregon’s eight largest metropolitan areas, including Bend.

Oregonians are ready for climate-friendly and equitable communities, but we need all the support we can get to carry this transformative work across the finish line.

What's happening behind the scenes? This week, we've got a series of on-the-ground updates for Central Oregon.

Right now, Oregon is undergoing a once-in-a-lifetime process that has the power to transform our communities and tackle climate change head-on.

Oregon’s land use planning system may be our most effective tool to fight climate change.