The Imnaha River flows through private lands 10 miles upstream from the town of Imnaha. The River Democracy Act of 2021, which Oregon U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley cosponsored, would redesignate 58 miles of the river from Indian Crossing to Cow Creek, including this area, as a Recreational River, and label 4 miles of the river, from Cow Creek to the mouth of the confluence with the Snake River, as Scenic. On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, the Wallowa County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution to oppose the legislation.
Andy Geissler, federal timber program director for the American Forest Resource Council, straddles a dry creek in Southern Oregon that has been nominated as a Wild and Scenic River under the federal River Democracy Act. Wallowa County voted Wednesday, July 21, 2021, to oppose the legislation and have county lands and rivers removed from it.
The Imnaha River flows through private lands 10 miles upstream from the town of Imnaha. The River Democracy Act of 2021, which Oregon U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley cosponsored, would redesignate 58 miles of the river from Indian Crossing to Cow Creek, including this area, as a Recreational River, and label 4 miles of the river, from Cow Creek to the mouth of the confluence with the Snake River, as Scenic. On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, the Wallowa County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution to oppose the legislation.
Andy Geissler, federal timber program director for the American Forest Resource Council, straddles a dry creek in Southern Oregon that has been nominated as a Wild and Scenic River under the federal River Democracy Act. Wallowa County voted Wednesday, July 21, 2021, to oppose the legislation and have county lands and rivers removed from it.
ENTERPRISE — A resolution opposing a bill in the U.S. Senate that would expand the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to include waterways in Wallowa County was passed recently by the Wallowa County Board of Commissioners.
The “Rivers Democracy Act,” a.k.a. S.192 introduced to the Senate by Oregon’s Democrat Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, would add 404 additional miles of Wallowa County rivers, streams, gulches, draws and unnamed tributaries, most of which are not classified as rivers and are not free-flowing or do not carry water year around, according to the resolution read by Commissioner Susan Roberts during the commissioners’ Wednesday, July 21, meeting.
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