Action Alert: Support Our Coastal Habitats

Date: May 15, 2025

To: All LWVOR Members

From: Lisa Bentson, LWVOR President

Peggy Lynch, Natural Resources Coordinator

ACTION: Please contact members of the Joint Ways and Means Committee as well as members of the Joint W&M Natural Resources Committee

REQUEST:  

We are contacting local League members throughout Oregon to ask members of the Ways and Means Natural Resources Subcommittee to advance both of these bills by setting work sessions for each.

LEAGUE POSITION:

To assure the future availability of essential resources, government policies must promote stewardship of natural resources. Policies that promote resource conservation are a fundamental part of such stewardship

DEADLINE: ASAP 

We need your support to fund both bills which bolster biodiversity, invest in coastal economies, and increase resilience to a changing climate

HB 3580 Identifies knowledge gaps and policy barriers to effective eelgrass

 management because eelgrass 

• Provides food and habitat for a variety of species

• Reduces harmful algal blooms

HB 3587 develops site management plans for existing rocky habitats because

rocky habitats protect

• Biodiverse ecosystems

• Shorelines 

For more information and talking points, see  HB 3580 and HB 3587.

Contact lwvor@lwvor.org with questions or to volunteer to support legislation like this