Explore Oregon Podcast: The state's most beautiful places and biggest issuesWill Oregon solve its outdoor recreation lawsuit crisis this legislative session? Plus, '1.25% for wildlife'
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In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness previews the upcoming Oregon legislative session and outdoor-related bills that will be considered this February.
Topics include:
- A potential legal fix to the lawsuit and affordability crisis facing ski areas and outfitters and guides. Pete Wallstorm with the Oregon Outfitters and Guides Association details why the issue has become such a big deal.
- An increase to the Oregon hotel tax to fund wildlife conservation — the so-called 1.25% for wildlife.
- The practice of "corner crossing" to access public lands sometimes cut off by private land
- An effort to reduce the number of people who need to purchase Waterway Access Permits to float small boats on rivers and lakes
- Gov. Tina Kotek nominated Kacey KC to become lead the embattled Oregon Department of Forestry. She'll need to be confirmed by the Oregon Senate this February.
- Oregon's ski areas are struggling to stay open amid the worst snow season in Oregon since 2015, and it's not expected to get any easier.
Topics include:
- A potential legal fix to the lawsuit and affordability crisis facing ski areas and outfitters and guides. Pete Wallstorm with the Oregon Outfitters and Guides Association details why the issue has become such a big deal.
- An increase to the Oregon hotel tax to fund wildlife conservation — the so-called 1.25% for wildlife.
- The practice of "corner crossing" to access public lands sometimes cut off by private land
- An effort to reduce the number of people who need to purchase Waterway Access Permits to float small boats on rivers and lakes
- Gov. Tina Kotek nominated Kacey KC to become lead the embattled Oregon Department of Forestry. She'll need to be confirmed by the Oregon Senate this February.
- Oregon's ski areas are struggling to stay open amid the worst snow season in Oregon since 2015, and it's not expected to get any easier.
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