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The Oregon Court of Appeals says the 2014 public land sale violated state law. June 17, 2025. contribute now. ... The Elliott State Forest. Oregon Department of Forestry.
The state of Oregon has purchased 43,000 young pine trees in Central Oregon from Fidelity National Timber Resources Inc., in hopes developing the land for recreational and environmental opportunities.
The Elliott State Forest is a step closer to becoming an 80,000-acre research forest after the State Land Board voted in favor of Oregon State University’s proposal. May 17, 2025 contribute now ...
This new list of 81 places you can visit thanks to land trusts roughly compares, in size, to Oregon’s State Park system. Add this land trust map to your list of places you already enjoy—your ...
When Oregon became a state in 1859, the U.S. government gave it 3.4 million acres of land to be used to generate money for the Common School Fund, which would build and maintain public schools.
A bill sponsored by State Senator David Smith (R-Port Orford), State Senator Fred Girod (R-Stayton) and State Senator Lynn Findley (R-Vale) and currently in the Oregon Senate Committee on Natural ...
Oregon State University has acquired 3,110 acres of industrial timberland just outside Portland on the north edge of Forest Park and plans to run it as a working research forest for logging ...
The Elliott State Forest has about 41,000 acres of old-growth trees, making it one of the largest uncut areas left in the Oregon Coast Range, according to Oregon Wild.
In the 1940s, 15 counties foreclosed on forest lands from owners who failed to pay property tax, then turned those tracts over to the state government in return for a portion of the timber revenues.
Amid a protest rally, the Oregon State Land Board approved a new plan for the Elliott State Forest that calls for increased logging. The plan boosts logging on the forest from the current level of 25 ...