OS News, Network eNewsletter, February 2005

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Hello! We'd like to briefly share some continuing success stories of Collaboration, Community Engagement, and Community Governance. Thanks for your participation! —Greg Wolf

Fort Clatsop to-the-Sea Trail >> Updates from the Trail

Commentary in the Oregonian, 3 February 2005: "The trail also represents a successful federal-local, public-private project that overcame major obstacles to make the most of an opportunity for Oregon. That kind of achievement almost deserves its own monument. "

• Read the entire article, "Again, Lewis and Clark to the the sea," with a quote from the OS Project convener, Senator Betsy Johnson
• Visit the Oregon Solutions Fort Clatsop webpage to learn more about this project at http://www.orsolutions.org/northwest/clatsop.htm

Wildfire Risk Reduction >> Deal brings together Environmentalists and Loggers

Governor Kulogoski designated the CROP Project as an Oregon Solutions project to create a team composed of individuals, agencies and organizations with a "stake" in ecosystem restoration, community wildfire risk reduction and employment/job creation in Central Oregon. The CROP initiative is focused upon overcoming one of the many barriers to achieving the desired outcome conditions listed above - supply instability.

• Read the OPB article by Ley Garnett regarding the recent celebration and Declaration of Cooperation signing in Bend
• Visit the Oregon Solutions Wildfire Risk Reduction webpage to view the commitments of partners in the Declaration of Cooperation at http://www.orsolutions.org/central/wildfirerisk.htm

The Oregon Paleo Project

A number of organizations, local officials, and state and federal agencies have been working together as an Oregon Solutions Team to explore opportunities with the significant fossil beds near Fossil.

• "Oregon 'Paleo Project' builds future in the rocks" on Bend.com
• Visit the Oregon Solutions Oregon Paleo Project webpage at
  http://www.orsolutions.org/central/central.htm