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Lawmakers hear results from juniper removal pilot and push to expand grants for treatment
Summary
Representative Vikki Breese Iverson and Central Oregon partners described a pilot program to remove invasive western juniper that has already produced restoration and hydrologic monitoring work; HB 3135 would appropriate $15 million for a grant program to scale treatments in selected counties.
House Bill 3135 would appropriate $15 million from the general fund to the Department of Administrative Services to provide grants to soil and water conservation districts that coordinate juniper-removal and related conservation projects in specified counties, Representative Vikki Breese Iverson told the committee.
"In much of Central and Eastern Oregon we've seen a rapid increase in juniper weeds... Studies have shown large juniper weeds can consume somewhere between 25 and 40 gallons a day," Representative Vikki Breese Iverson told the committee, describing the pilot program created by HB 2010 the prior session and the districts' progress under that pilot.
Stakeholders presented monitoring, ecological and operational results from the pilot. Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council program coordinator…
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