WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The Credit Union National Association issued the following news release: Rachel Pross, Chief Risk Officer at MAPS Credit Union in Salem, Oregon will testify on behalf of Credit Union National Association (CUNA) at a hearing on cannabis banking, "Challenges for Cannabis and Banking: Outside Perspectives," in the Senate Banking Committee. The hearing is scheduled to begin at July 23, 2019 on 10:00am EST. CUNA supports credit unions' ability to serve their members. In state  more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, July 16 -- Pheasants Forever issued the following news release: Upland hunters in Oregon have joined the ranks of "The Habitat Organization" with the recent formation of the Columbia River Gorge Chapter of Pheasants Forever. Local volunteers will now help deliver the mission of the nation's leading upland conservation group through public access projects, hunter recruitment, habitat enhancement and much more. Replicating more than 560 Pheasants Forever chapters nationwide,  more

BEAVERTON, Oregon, July 18 -- Sexual Abuse, a journal that says it provides a forum for clinical and theoretical aspects of sexual abuse from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, published six research articles on the following topics in its August 2019 edition: * National Comparisons of Rape Myth Acceptance Predictors Between Nonathletes and Athletes From Multi-Institutional Settings * Parks, Playgrounds, and Incidents of Sexual Assault * Sex Offender Supervision: Communicati  more

BEAVERTON, Oregon, July 16 -- Sexual Abuse, a journal that says it provides a forum for clinical and theoretical aspects of sexual abuse from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, published six research articles on the following topics in its June 2019 edition: * A Bayesian Decision-Support Tool for Child Sexual Abuse Assessment and Investigation * A Validation Study of the Child Pornography Offender Risk Tool (CPORT) * Differentiating Adults With Mixed Age Victims From Those W  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, July 17 -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release: * * * - The lands contain important habitat for greater sage grouse and rare redband trout, which is degraded by grazing * * * Conservation groups today won a partial preliminary injunction blocking summer grazing by Hammond Ranches on one of two public lands allotments with sensitive ecological values. A federal judge ordered reduced grazing with monthly monitoring on the other allotment. Today's court orde  more