After 30 years of amazing service Bob Sallinger is retiring from Portland
Audubon. Bob's record as an advocate, activist, naturalist, wildlife
researcher, and wildlife rehabber, and his deep ties to the community, have
led to many of the most exciting conservation wins in P...
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When the I5 freeway rammed its way through North and Northeast Portland in
the 1960s it devastated once thriving historically black neighborhoods,
demolishing over 300 homes, destroying locally owned businesses and
displacing hundreds of people. For most of the last century...
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This program aired originally on 7/11/2022
Portland and other Oregon municipalities are required to inventory their
employment land periodically as part of the comprehensive planning process.
For decades the city has decided during each inventory process that it needs
...
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For the last few years, we seem to look back at the past year and say, next
year has to be better. But it never is. Or maybe we are focusing too much on
the negative – and there certainly is a lot of that to consider – rather
than appreciating some of the significant victor...
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After a 17 year battle, communities across Southern Oregon (and the rest of
the region) finally defeated the massive Jordan Cove LNG Export terminal
proposed for Coos Bay. But not long after that victory a new fracked gas
behemoth threatens the region again. Gas Transmissio...
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This program was originally broadcast on October 24, 2022
For thousands of years the north reach of the Willamette River, near its
confluence with the Columbia, was a braided river of shallow channels and
islands rich in biodiversity. That was until European settlers cam...
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This program was originally broadcast on November 28, 2022
The Northern Spotted Owl is the quintessential canary in the coal-mine for
older forest ecosystems. It was listed as “threatened” under the
Endangered Species Act in 1992 because of widespread logging of it...
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Ever since last summer, when the city of Portland denied Zenith Energy the
Land Use Compatibility (LUCS) statement to expand their oil train operastions
in Northwest Portland, it looked like Zenith might actually be forced to shut
down. But then to the amazement and dismay ...
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Last month the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released
the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the proposed GTN XPress
fracked gas pipeline expansion. The project, which would significantly
increase the flow of fracked gas through the Northwest, fac...
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Portland voters just made history. With the passage of Measure 26-228, for
the first time in over 100 years we are changing our form of government and
election system. The City of Portland will be implementing ranked choice
voting, preparing to move to a City Administrator ...
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