With bright symmetrical green leaves sprouting out of the Tree of Heaven’s crown, the plant almost earns the namesake based on looks alone. Corrie Podolak, conservation outreach coordinator at Underwood Conservation District (UCD), will tell you otherwise.
The current administration recently announced changes to a 50-year-old environmental law the president calls “broken and outdated.”
The National Environmental Policy Act “ties up and bogs down” infrastructure projects by an “outrageously slow and burdensome federal approval process,” President Trump said.
Ecclesia of Sinai, which owns the land used by Azure Farms, Inc., is using Old Testament verses as grounds to not recognize the authority of Sherman County to enforce removal of noxious weeds on about 2,000 acres in and around Moro. David Stelzer, president of Azure, which is headquartered in Dufur, said Ecclesia is his company’s landlord, a separate entity from the organic farming operation.
To the editor: As a former newspaper reporter myself, I was disappointed and dismayed to read Reporter Neita Cecil’s article entitled “Growers Wary over GMOs” (Sun., June 16). Ms. Cecil would have done herself, our local farmers, and your readership a far better turn, had she actually researched genetically modified foods when writing her article.
