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by Tony Hayden / Aloha Studio, Lebanon
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1000
Friends of Oregon is often known for our efforts to protect Oregon's
farm, forest, and range lands from urban sprawl. We rely heavily on
Statewide Planning Goal 3 (Agricultural Lands) and Goal 4 (Forest
Lands), which provide support for maintaining these resource lands.
Our work in protecting farmland includes legislative work, litigation,
public education, and working with local
farming advocates on local decisions. |
We
care about maintaining farm and forestland for many reasons: the resource
economies contribute significantly to Oregon's statewide and local economies,
the industries provide jobs, maintaining our resources lands contributes
to our quality of life, and keeping rural lands rural serves as part of
a larger land use strategy leading to livable communities and efficient
use of public resources.
Yet Oregon's
farm, forest, and range land continues to be threatened by low-density
residential sprawl, conversion to urban uses, land divisions making resource
use impracticable, use of land for golf courses, airports, aggregate mines
and other non-resource uses, and efforts to weaken
protection for most of Oregon's farmland. With
your help, we can fight these pressures.
Documents
Oregon's Wine Industry Thrives
with Land Use Planning An article by Jason Lett
Making the Case Against Rural Sprawl
1000 Friends and Forestland Protection
Farmer Advisory Committee
About Secondary Lands
About the Farm Income Test
Top
Ten Things You Need to Know About the Farm Income Test
(120k PDF)
Allowed Uses on Farmland
Farm
Links
Oregon
Department of Agriculture
Statistics About Oregon
Agriculture
A
Tour of Oregon Agriculture
Oregon Farm Bureau
American Farmland Trust
Goal 3
Forest
Links
Why Conserve Forest Land?
Oregon Department of Forestry
Goal 4
General
Local Groups Working to Protect Farm and
Forest Land
Contact our
Farm, Forest, and Rangeland Staff Attorney,
Kate Kimball
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