HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

New Albany rule: Don’t harm killer whales

Written November 18th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

It sounds like a joke but it isn’t: From now on anyone wanting to build anything in the designated 100-year-flood zone in Albany will have to prove that the work won’t harm endangered species including salmon, sturgeon, smelt and killer whales.


A comeback for the ivory bill?

Written October 14th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Petitioners have filed a proposed Oregon initiative that seeks to accomplish what the 2015 legislature failed to do: outlaw the sale of ivory and other parts of exotic or endangered species.


 
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