Posts Tagged ‘rural reserves’

Farmers, conservation groups join to preserve farmland near Portland’s suburbs

January 27, 2010 As the time for public comments draw to a close, a look at a local hazelnut orchard and tree farm in Clackamas County – one of the counties in the Portland metro area deciding where to place urban and rural Reserves for future populations and possible development. Peter McDonald is concerned farms [...]

Urban Growth Boundary: Oregon Agriculture, Economy, and Managed Growth (video)

Urban Growth Boundary: Oregon Agriculture, Economy, and Managed Growth (video)

Part 1: In physics, the second law of thermodynamics, which deals with the natural flow of energy distribution (no, you won’t be tested on this part), stipulates that localized “systems,” (think of an ice cube melting), will disperse outward, unless a counter force is applied to contain it. In population centers of the country, urban [...]