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This legislative session has already seen movement on our top conservation priorities, so let’s take a look at where things are and what we expect for the rest of the session.
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Experts will cover legal topics important to land conservation in Oregon, including conservation easements, carbon offsets and Tribal access.
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COLT’s legal extern will support the Oregon Land Justice Project by researching, drafting, and compiling legal tools for land trusts to use in partnership with Oregon Tribes to protect cultural resources and increase Tribal access to ancestral lands and first foods.
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For the next 160 days, COLT will be tracking bills and hearings in Salem that will protect working farm, ranch, and forest lands and increase funding for land acquisition.
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This important bill safeguards tax incentives for private landowners who protect clean water, habitat and natural resources on private land.
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U.S. Forest Service’s Forest Legacy Program helps secure 7,500 acres for people and wildlife in Southern Oregon
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Raise your voice for wildlife and conservation, and ask congress to pass RAWA and EIA.
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Join COLT and Thorn Run lobbyist Elizabeth Remley for our 2023 Advocacy Training for land trusts!
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The permanent conservation easement tax incentive is a powerful tool that has helped tens of thousands of Americans conserve public values on private land. We must continue to protect it.
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COLT and several of members traveled to the Oregon Coast to join water providers, local government officials, federal and state agencies, and a host of other community partners to talk about protecting drinking water sources using land conservation tools.
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