WASHINGTON, March 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it expects to award up to 20 cooperative agreements for flood hazard identification and risk assessment programs in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $2 million. The agency said the grant was associated with disaster prevention and relief. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district gove  more

MARYSVILLE, Washington, March 5 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: The 364 Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) G4 team hosted this year's Logistics Workshop with Brigade, Battalion, and Company supply, service, and maintenance teams in order to strengthen formal and informal working relationships, ensure mutual understanding, and align Army, 79th TSC and 364th ESC priorities toward building and sustaining overall logistics operational readiness. Approximately 90 partic  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 5 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on the business employment dynamics in Oregon for 2nd quarter 2019: From March 2019 to June 2019, gross job gains from opening and expanding private-sector establishments in Oregon totaled 105,253, while gross job losses from closing and contracting private-sector establishments numbered 100,367, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics rep  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 7 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Portland and Walla Walla districts will close all Corps navigation locks on the Columbia and Snake rivers March 7 at 6 a. m. for regularly scheduled annual inspections, preventative maintenance and repairs. Navigation locks on the Columbia River are located at Bonneville Dam at river mile 145, The Dalles Dam at river mile 191, John Day Dam at river mile 216 and McN  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Oregon office issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture will invest more than $2 million this fiscal year in Oregon through the Joint Chiefs' Landscape Restoration Partnership to improve forest health. USDA's Forest Service (FS) and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will work together to improve landscape resilience and restore white oak habitat in Ce  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 3 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Oregon office issued the following news release: * * * - Oregon Gets 5 New Projects * * * The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest $56 million this year to help agricultural producers improve water quality in more than 300 high-priority watersheds across the country. In Oregon, USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is continuing its successful landscape-level w  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it intends to award a $2.7 million cooperative agreement to the Oregon State University for the completion of the deployment of magnetotelluric array instruments across the southwestern and south-central U.S. The agency description of the grant states: "Data will be collected and assessed for quality at all newly installed locations to ensure that cultural noise is not overwhelming. "Oregon Stat  more

PENDLETON, Oregon, March 7 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Umatilla National Forest - issued the following news release: Umatilla National Forest Supervisor Eric Watrud is pleased to welcome two new district rangers to the Forest. Aaron Gagnon has been selected as the Walla Walla District Ranger. Susan Piper will join the Umatilla National Forest as the Pomeroy District Ranger. Both individuals will start their positions on April 27. "I am pleased to have the  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $1.1 million to Oregon as part of its effort to strengthen the nation's infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system. Overall, USDA is providing almost $70 million in funding this year to support 386 project  more

TUALATIN, Oregon, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency - Oregon Field Office issued the following news release: Farmers and ranchers may apply to enroll grasslands in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands signup beginning March 16. The signup runs through May 15. "Through this CRP Grasslands signup, farmers and ranchers can protect grasslands, rangelands and pastures, while maintaining the land as working grazing lands," said Barry Bushue, Oregon Stat  more