Land Use in Oregon - Oregon Ballot Measures 37 and 49, Rajneeshpuram, Land Use in Oregon, Oregon Environmental Council (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Oregon Ballot Measures 37 and 49, Rajneeshpuram, Land Use in Oregon, Oregon Environmental Council, Oregon and California Railroad, Oregon Beach Bill, Oregon Department of State Lands, Northwest Forest Plan, Oregon Senate Bills 100 and 101, Willamette Greenway, Chamberlain-ferris Act, Central Oregon Landwatch, Sohappy V. Smith. Excerpt: Central Oregon Landwatch is a non-profit land use planning organization based in the Central Oregon city of Bend, Oregon, United States . Formerly known as the Sisters Forest Planning Committee, according to the group: Landwatch seeks to encourage effective land use planning by providing information and disseminating ideas on public policy and by aggressively enforcing federal, state and local land use and environmental laws and codes. The Central Oregon Landwatch seeks to encourage effective land use planning by: The group is affiliated with 1000 Friends of Oregon. See also (online edition) References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at The Chamberlain-Ferris Act (39 Stat. 218) of June 9, 1916 was an Act of the United States Congress that ruled that 2,800,000 acres (11,300 km ) of the original 4 million granted to the Southern Pacific Company (successor to the Oregon and California Railroad ) in California and Oregon were "revested" to the United States, and put under the control of the General Land Office, which was to dispose of the lands and timber through auction sales. It was sponsored by Sen. George E. Chamberlain (D) of Oregon and Rep. Scott Ferris (D) of Oklahoma. The results proved disappointing, and the act was repealed by the subsequent O