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Oregon agency seeks to make Landowner Preference program permanent to support working lands and damage management
Summary
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife asked the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildfire to remove the sunset on the Landowner Preference program and make it permanent to support private-land stewardship and damage management.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife urged the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildfire on Jan. 30 to make the Landowner Preference (LOP) program permanent by removing its statutory sunset.
ODFW Deputy Administrator Brian Wolfer said private lands provide critical wildlife habitat and that the LOP program, first adopted in 1981 and modified several times since, balances landowner and public hunting interests while providing an incentive for landowners to steward habitat. "Private lands play a critical role in the conservation and management of wildlife in Oregon," Wolfer said, and the department recommended removing the program’s…
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