National Policy Consensus Center Blog

The signing of Senate Bill 1546 will implement the State Land Board’s vision to keep the Elliott State Forest in public ownership and preserve it for future generations for conservation, economic growth, recreation, education, and forest research. Since 2017, the Department of State Lands has worked with…

Veronica Brown is a senior at Portland State University located in downtown Portland, Oregon, studying Community Development. Having lived in the greater Portland area for her entire life and not having had the chance to travel or adventure away from home, Veronica wanted to move away from the city after…

SageCon (the Sage-Grouse Conservation Partnership) has been an Oregon Solutions project since 2012. Recently, the 2021 Oregon Legislature passed HB 2069 establishing the Sage-Grouse Mitigation Program In-Lieu Fee Fund.The Sage-Grouse Mitigation Program is one result of Oregon's sage-grouse conservation efforts…

An Oregon lottery bonding bill, HB 5534 (2021), appropriates $7,250,000 for restoration and reopening of the Willamette Falls Locks. Also, HB 2564 establishes the Willamette Falls Locks Authority as a public corporation.The Willamette Falls canal was constructed in the 1870s to allow river traffic to navigate…

Laurel Singer, NPCC's executive director, and Steve Greenwood, NPCC's Director of Academic and Training programs, joined faculty from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) to present an online course on environmental collaboration and conflict resolution. The course brought together more than forty…