2003 ENVIRONMENTAL SCORECARD FOR THE OREGON LEGISLATURE
OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS HONOR ROLL: DISHONOR ROLL:
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Senator Richard Devlin Senator Roger Beyer Representative Betsy Close (D-Tualatin) (R-Molalla) (R-Albany) Senator Avel Gordly Senator Ted Ferrioli Representative Bob Jenson (D-Portland) (R-John Day) (R-Pendleton) Senator Vicki Walker Senator Bill Fisher Representative Wayne Kreiger (D-Eugene) (R-Roseburg) (R-Gold Beach) Senator Steve Harper Representative Dennis Richardson Representative Jackie Dingfelder (R-Klamath Falls) (R-Central Point) (D-Portland) Senator Ken Messerle Representative Greg Smith Representative Steve March (R-Coos Bay) (R-Heppner) (D-Portland) Senator John Minnis Representative Tootie Smith Representative Jeff Merkley (R-Fairview) (R-Molalla) (D-Portland) Senator Frank Morse Representative Floyd Prozanski (R-Albany) (D-Eugene) Senator David Nelson Representative Diane Rosenbaum (R-Pendleton) (D-Portland) Senator Jackie Winters Representative Carolyn Tomei (R-Salem) (D-Milwaukie) Senator Ben Westlund (R-Bend)
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS By using this Scorecard, you’ve taken the first AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE step towards protecting Oregon’s environment: Knowing the Score. STEPHEN KAFOURY CO-CHAIR Did your representative vote to defend your right to know about pesticides threatening our waterways AUDREY SIMMONS or to give more tax breaks to polluters? Did your CO-CHAIR senator vote to make it easier for developers to pave DOUG MYERS over farmland? TREASURER For more than a decade now, a majority of our NORMA GRIER Legislators have sided with polluters and developers, threatening the legacy SECRETARY we are leaving our children. MATT BLEVINS The only hope for change is an engaged “green majority” of citizens who MARDEL CHINBURG are willing to hold their elected officials accountable for their votes on the JEFF GOLDEN environment. WALT GORMAN STEPHEN GRIFFITH This Scorecard provides you two tools to do this. CHARLIE HALES At the detailed level, it allows you to learn how your legislators voted on FRED HEUTTE more than two-dozen specific, high-profile environmental bills. GAYLE KILLAM ERIC LEMELSON At the general level, it allows you to learn their overall score — SCOTT PRATT the percentage of time they voted pro-environment on key bills. CLIFF TROW “Knowing the Score” is just the first step. Citizens who care about Oregon’s RANDY TUCKER environment need to follow it up with action. If your legislators did well, write to them and thank them. If they did OLCV STAFF poorly, write to express your concern. Contact information is included in the back of this booklet. TRISH BOWCOCK JACKSON CO. ORGANIZER Join or volunteer with the Oregon League of Conservation Voters, the political voice of Oregon’s environmental movement. You can donate or AMY CARLSON volunteer by filling out the form in the back of this Scorecard or by PROGRAM AND COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR checking out our web page, www.olcv.org. KATY DAILY Take action with your vote by supporting pro-environment candidates at FIELD DIRECTOR the local, state, and federal level. KALEN GARR Oregon’s legacy as an environmental leader is at risk. Now, more than ever, OFFICE MANAGER citizens need to talk to friends and neighbors about the threats we face. JED JORGENSEN Now, more than ever, we need to elect leaders who will take seriously our POLITICAL DIRECTOR responsibility to future generations.
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2003 ENVIRONMENTAL SCORECARD FOR THE OREGON LEGISLATURE 3 OVERVIEW OF THE 2003 SESSION: A TALE OF TWO CHAMBERS
he longest legislative session 810-square-mile Tillamook and effectively stopped these anti- in Oregon’s history left the Clatsop State Forests. The current environment bills from ever being T environment battered, but plan for these forests already calls voted on, there is no objective way not broken. for clearcutting the vast majority of to factor their leadership into the Like the last five legislative sessions, it over time. Not content with this vote chart or their scores. most of the conversation was about speed of the cutting, the timber- However, in some cases, these how to weaken Oregon’s environmental industry-sponsored bill would have Senators made the wrong call: voting safeguards, not how to improve them. doubled the amount of logging in “yes” on bills that threatened clean Repeatedly, the House passed bills these forests. At risk: wildlife habitat water, farmland, and wildlife, among that would have weakened safeguards and the drinking water source of other things. protecting Oregon’s land, air, water, tens of thousands of Oregonians. and wildlife. Fortunately, most of THE FINAL RESULTS Despite the budget crisis, the House those bills were killed in Senate The one significant positive outcome Committees. voted to put more tax dollars into the hands of major polluters. They voted of this session was a new law that will The 2003 Scorecard includes 26 encourage less driving by offering House votes – nearly a record – and to expand and extend the pollution control tax credit – a credit that incentives to create automobile just 9 Senate votes. Only one of the insurance based on mileage. bills scored is a pro-environment bill. effectively pays polluters to comply with clean air and water laws. Unfortunately, there were consid- erably more negative outcomes. THE HOUSE: IT WAS Some lowlights: THE WORST OF TIMES After a decade of The Governor signed a budget Oregon’s 2003 House leadership for the Department of Fish and promoted an extreme anti- retreat from Oregon’s Wildlife (ODFW) that used voter- environment agenda. approved funds for salmon habitat Major themes emerging from the legacy of environmental restoration to instead construct a 2003 House of Representatives: leadership, Oregonians hatchery research center. The The House passed more than a can’t afford any more budget also eliminated the ODFW dozen separate bills that weakened Habitat Division. protections for Oregon’s farm and legislative failures to The Legislature failed to fund the forest land, while enhancing the protect our water, air, state’s landmark Pesticide Use power of developers and the Reporting System (PURS), which mining industry. These bills would land, and wildlife. was adopted nearly unanimously by have led to uncontrolled sprawl. the 1999 Legislature. PURS would More than one-third of all votes protect public health and water included in this Scorecard are land THE SENATE: BETTER THAN quality by tracking where pesticides use bills. THE WORST OF TIMES are entering our waterways. Four years after passage, the program Wildlife and salmon were in the Credit for stopping the onslaught of has not received funding to be crosshairs of the House. The anti-environment legislation that implemented, so our right to House passed numerous anti- passed the House goes primarily to know about pesticide use has wildlife bills, voting to weaken Senate President Peter Courtney and been effectively gutted. the state’s Endangered Species Act, four Senators serving on the Water threaten wild salmon, and relax & Land Use and the Agriculture While the state saved just $565,000 wetland protections. & Natural Resources Committees: by failing to fund the pesticide Oregon’s state forests were also Charlie Ringo, Frank Shields, Rick right-to-know program, it allocated subject to serious attack. The Metsger, and Tony Corcoran. up to $3 million per year by House voted twice to make logging These Senators did Oregon’s envi- including a provision in its trans- the number one priority in the ronment a great service. Because they portation package to subsidize
4 OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS certain diesel trucks for merely environment bills in the House and few Republicans were willing to buck obeying clean air standards. the Senate. By threatening to veto their party leaders and vote pro- some key anti-land use bills that had environment. Of 50 Republican For the fifth straight session, the passed the House, for example, he legislators, just two, Sen. Len Hannon Legislature failed to clean up helped blunt the attack on land use in and Rep. Lane Shetterly, scored Oregon’s waterways. A bill that the Senate. He ultimately signed the better than 40%. In contrast, of 40 purports to clean up the Portland one pro-environment bill that passed, Democratic legislators, only six Harbor Superfund site passed, but and vetoed one anti-environment bill scored worse than 60%. doesn’t actually mandate any in the Scorecard. cleanup, just a new process. Yet, it Unfortunately, Governor LEGISLATURE OUT OF STEP does contain a provision backed by Kulongoski signed into law, or WITH OREGONIANS major polluters that will likely lead allowed to become law without After a decade of retreat from to the state paying for a portion of his signature, five of the six anti- the cleanup that polluters are Oregon’s legacy of environmental environment bills that reached his leadership, Oregonians can’t afford responsible for under federal law. desk. The Legislature was wrong to weak- any more legislative failures to protect our water, air, land, and wildlife. en the principle that polluters pay OVERALL FAILING SCORE to clean up the messes they create. It is clear that voters must elect Bottom line, the 2003 Legislature gets more legislators committed to GOVERNOR KULONGOSKI: a failing score. The overall average environmental stewardship before A TALE OF TWO TEDS score for both chambers was a dismal we can pass significant reforms to 39%, down from 45% in 2001 and improve our quality of life. Governor Ted Kulongoski has earned 41% in 1999. both criticism and praise for his work The Legislature continues to WHO REPRESENTS YOU with the 2003 Legislature. exhibit serious partisan battles on a Please see pages 16-18 of this Score- On the plus side, the Governor broad range of issues, of which the lobbied against several anti- card to find out who represented you environment is only one. As a result, and how to contact your legislators.
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This is OLCV’s 16th Environmental committee reviewed these nominations conservationists as well as opponents, Scorecard for the Oregon Legislature. to identify votes that (1) presented a making it known to legislators that The goal of the Scorecard is to clear choice about whether or not to they were facing a clear choice. As provide objective, factual information protect the environment, (2) reflected a result, unanimous votes were about the voting records of Oregon’s a cross-section of the environmental excluded. Additionally, OLCV does Senators and Representatives. OLCV’s issues addressed during the session, not score votes where, because of mission is to educate the public about and (3) were viewed as important by the nature of the lobbying effort, the environmental voting records of a range of conservation groups. there was some apparent confusion elected officials and to hold those regarding a bill’s impact on the decision-makers accountable. The Scorecard is designed to environment. provide voters with the informa- The final decision on what votes to HOW THE 2003 tion to separate true stewards score was made by OLCV’s Board of SCORECARD VOTES of Oregon’s environment from Directors. We wish to thank the many WERE CHOSEN those who just talk about it. volunteers who helped compile and review the Scorecard for their Experts from Oregon’s environmental Therefore, the Scorecard only valuable input. organizations nominated votes to includes votes where there was a include in the Scorecard. A volunteer significant lobbying effort by
2003 ENVIRONMENTAL SCORECARD FOR THE OREGON LEGISLATURE 5 HOUSE AND SENATE VOTE DESCRIPTIONS
ENERGY FISH & WILDLIFE FISH & WILDLIFE THREATENS RENEWABLE WEAKENS OREGON’S THREATENS WETLAND ENERGY • HB 3170 ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT PROTECTIONS • HB 3006
HOUSE • HB 2458 HOUSE VOTE In 1999, the Legislature passed VOTE Wetlands provide critical an electric system restructuring HOUSE While House Bill 2458 proposed habitat for waterfowl, fish, and 1 VOTE 5 package (SB 1149), which sets 3 some minor improvements to amphibians, while helping to aside 3% of utility revenue for Public the State Endangered Species prevent flooding. House Bill 3006 Purpose funding. This funding includes Act, it contained other provisions that would have changed certain legal investments in conservation, renewable would have seriously weakened the definitions with the goal of limiting energy, and assistance for those with low ESA. The good news – it created a safeguards that prevent the destruction incomes. House Bill 3170 would have definition for recovery of a species. of wetlands. Under HB 3006, certain weakened oversight that ensures these The bad news – the definition expanded isolated wetlands and wetlands of less Public Purpose funds are truly spent as the number of situations in which than one acre in size could be destroyed intended. people can legally “take,” or kill, an without a permit. NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. endangered species, and failed to NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. require distribution of the species Passed House, May 6, 35-20 Passed House, May 12, 35-25 across their normal habitat range. The Died in Senate Died in Senate bill also would have allowed species to lose their protection for purely FISH & WILDLIFE political reasons. FISH & WILDLIFE NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. WEAKENS LIMITS ON WEAKENS SALMON HABITAT Passed House, July 8, 38-22 COUGAR HUNTING • HB 2436 RESTORATION • HB 5020 Died in Senate HOUSE HOUSE SENATE VOTE In 1994 and again in 1996, VOTE VOTE Voters approved 2 Oregon voters approved mea- 6 1 Measure 66 in 1998 to sures that stopped bear and FISH & WILDLIFE increase lottery funding cougar hunting by hounds. House Bill for protection of Oregon’s parks and 2436 would have overturned part of WILD VS. HATCHERY FISH wild salmon. In each legislative session Measure 18, allowing trophy hunters to • HB 2459 since, legislators have diverted much chase cougars with packs of dogs. Many HOUSE Hatcheries are not sustainable of this money for other purposes. This VOTE cougar biologists feel that this form of without a steady infusion of session legislators shifted $4 million of hunting actually exacerbates the risk of 4 wild genetic stock. Broadly Measure 66 funds intended for salmon human-cougar conflict. By targeting accepted scientific standards call for habitat restoration, using the money trophy cougars (large dominant males) maintaining strict separation between instead to construct a hatchery fish instead of focusing only on cougars that wild and hatchery salmon during research center. House Bill 5020 also have caused problems, hound hunting spawning, to maintain the viability of eliminated Oregon Department of likely increases the number of juveniles, wild populations. House Bill 2459 Fish and Wildlife’s (ODFW) Habitat the class most likely to cause problems. would have required hatchery-bred fish Division, threatening the agency’s NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. to be “considered” wild, and allow them ability to protect wildlife habitat. to spawn, threatening wild populations. Passed House, April 23, 35-23 NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. If hatchery-bred fish numbers were Died in Senate Passed House June 27, 39-14 included in the overall species count, Passed Senate, July 9, 18-12 HB 2459 also could have caused wild Signed by Governor salmon to lose all other protections under the state ESA. NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. Passed House, May 12, 31-29 Died in Senate
6 OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FISH & WILDLIFE WEAKENS LOGGING OVERSIGHT ON PRIVATE FORESTS • HB 3264
HOUSE SENATE Recently, several ERVICE VOTE VOTE S 2 conservation groups 7 sued Oregon’s State ILDLIFE W Forester, charging that he was illegally
approving certain timber harvesting ISH AND near streams and in landslide-prone areas, violating the federal Endangered , US F
Species Act. Rather than comply with ROOKS B the law, the Legislature simply passed RACI House Bill 3264, which eliminates the T State Forester’s authority over that timber harvesting. What does this mean? LAND USE LAND USE In theory, if the State Forester never PHONY FARMING EXPANSION OF WOODBURN approved the plans, the state hasn’t vio- HB 2369 HB 2614 lated the ESA, only the landowner has. DWELLINGS • UGB • HOUSE HOUSE This is a head-in-the-sand approach that VOTE In the early 1990s, the state’s VOTE Urban Growth Boundaries does nothing to resolve conflicts between 9 Land Conservation and 10 (UGBs) were established to timber harvesting and fish conservation. Development Commission manage growth and to protect NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. (LCDC) adopted a test designed to prime farm and forest land from determine when new houses, or farm sprawling development. Compact Passed House, April 30, 44-14 dwellings, could be built on farmland. development is also cheaper for tax- Passed Senate, August 22, 20-10 The test was necessary because of a payers. Local governments expand their Signed by Governor surge of people in the 1980s who UGBs following a process that examines bought farmland, built a so-called “farm their actual need for land. House Bill dwelling,” but then didn’t actually farm. 2614 would have expanded the FISH & WILDLIFE The test requires $80,000 in gross farm Woodburn Urban Growth Boundary DOUBLES LOGGING IN income to qualify for a farm dwelling by legislative fiat. Expanding UGBs TILLAMOOK/CLATSOP on “high value” farmland (about 25% of through legislative action is completely STATE FOREST • HB 3632 Oregon’s farmland) and $40,000 for all inappropriate in that it bypasses all of other farmland. Under the test, the the procedural and substantive require- HOUSE VOTE The Tillamook and Clatsop number of phony farm dwellings has ments for UGB expansions, including 8 forests cover 810 square miles, been reduced. House Bill 2369 would citizen participation and demonstration representing 87% of state have instead created an alternative farm of need. Under HB 2614, prime farm- forests in Oregon. Conservationists income “capability” test. This weaker land in Woodburn would have been believe the current plan for these forests test would have led to much more converted to industrial use despite places too much emphasis on logging, rural sprawl and loss of farmland, as evidence that the existing UGB while failing to set aside reserves for evidenced by a prior similar standard contained a full 20-year supply of old-growth forests, wildlife, recreation, that failed to stop the building of industrial land. and water quality. Rather than protecting “McMansions” on high value farmland. these forests, House Bill 3632 would NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. have done the opposite, by making their NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. Passed House, May 27, 31-27 primary purpose the production of Passed House, April 24, 32-25 Converted in Senate to bill on forest crops. This would have roughly Died in Senate different subject doubled the amount of logging in these forests, putting wildlife habitat and the drinking water for tens of thousands of Oregonians at risk. NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. Passed House, June 11, 44-13 Died in Senate
2003 ENVIRONMENTAL SCORECARD FOR THE OREGON LEGISLATURE 7 LAND USE EXPANSION OF WILSON- VILLE UGB • HB 3084
HOUSE VOTE Under this special interest bill, 11 the Legislature attempted to override a local UGB decision on behalf of a handful of disgruntled landowners. House Bill 3084 would have expanded the Wilsonville Urban Growth Boundary over the objection of the Wilsonville Mayor and City Council. Expanding UGBs through would have allowed counties to legislative action bypasses all of the LAND USE authorize urban levels of industrial, procedural and substantive require- GOLF COURSE SUBDIVISIONS commercial, or residential development, ments for UGB expansions, including as well as hotels and motels, in an ON FARMLAND • HB 3017 citizen participation and demonstration unlimited number of so-called “rural HOUSE A special interest bill written of need. VOTE development zones” outside UGBs. on behalf of a single landowner, NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. Anything from manufacturing plants to 15 House Bill 3017 would have Passed House, April 21, 33-24 destination resorts to subdivisions to allowed any farmland to be carved into Died in Senate Wal-Marts could have been built far smaller lots and developed into large- from population centers and existing lot subdivisions, if the original lot is infrastructure, severely undercutting located adjacent to or inside the LAND USE the purpose of UGBs. boundary of a golf course, leading to more sprawl. UGB EXPANSION ON RURAL NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. LAND • HB 2617 Passed House, March 27, 36-21 NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. Died in Senate Passed House, May 7, 31-27 HOUSE House Bill 2617 would have VOTE Died in Senate allowed eastern Oregon cities 12 (mainly Bend) to bring industrial lands into the Urban Growth LAND USE Boundary without demonstrating any FARMLAND TURNED INTO LAND USE need for additional land. No need has GRAVEL PITS • HB 3013 RURAL SPRAWL MASQUER- been shown to circumvent the existing ADING AS RESORTS • HOUSE SENATE Currently, aggregate UGB expansion process. The Mayor of VOTE VOTE mining (rock, sand, HB 3213 • SB 911 Bend even testified on the record that 14 3 gravel) can only take HOUSE SENATE Current law attempts to there was nothing stopping the city VOTE VOTE place on Oregon’s farmland if the mine ensure that destination from expanding its UGB. 16 4 site represents a “significant” resource resorts, which are NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. (large sites that meet certain quality generally built in farm and forest areas Passed House, May 21, 35-22 standards), and only if the site is not away from cities, are designed for recre- Died in Senate on our best farmland. House Bill 3013 ational tourism rather than subdivisions. would have eliminated both of these These bills, House Bill 3213 and Senate safeguards, effectively allowing limitless Bill 911, would have dramatically LAND USE gravel mining on Oregon’s most expanded residential development productive farmland. unrelated to tourism allowed at destina- URBAN DEVELOPMENT ON NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. tion resorts, threatening to turn these RURAL LAND • HB 2689 destination resorts into little more than Passed House, May 5, 41-16 HOUSE A fundamental premise of “sagebrush subdivisions” in scenic areas. VOTE Passed Senate in amended Oregon’s land use planning In April, the House passed HB 3213, form, June 24, 17-9 13 program is that urban develop- which modified the definition of Died in Conference Committee ment should be contained within urban “overnight lodging” to accomplish this growth boundaries, while development purpose. In August, after HB 3213 died in rural areas should remain rural in in a Senate committee, the Senate character and scale. House Bill 2689 revived it in the form of SB 911, which
8 OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS achieved the same result by increasing LAND USE that Metro could have expanded the the ratio of residential homes to Portland-area UGB even if growth SPECIAL INTEREST overnight lodgings allowed at destination could be absorbed on land already resorts. The House also passed SB 911 EXCEPTION • HB 3631 within the boundary. Such an approach HOUSE SENATE in the final week, but this vote is not VOTE VOTE Another special interest constitutes a fundamental reversal of scored because no environmental group deal, House Bill 3631 Oregon’s current commitment to distributed a letter opposing the bill. 19 5 was Oregonians In efficient development and to farmland NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. Action’s attempt to get special treatment protection. SB 763 would have put a for a handful of landowners, including great deal of prime farmland, mostly HB 3213 Passed House, their longtime supporter Dorothy in Washington County, at risk. April 10, 37-23 English. OIA, which gets most of its NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. SB 911 Passed Senate, funding from developers and timber August 13, 18-11 companies, has backed ballot measures Passed Senate, July 2, 16-13 SB 911 Governor Signed that would have effectively ended land Passed House in amended form, use planning in Oregon. HB 3631 would August 27, 35-20 have allowed Ms. English and a few Died in Conference Committee LAND USE other individuals to subdivide and COASTAL RIP-RAP • HB 3228 develop their properties near Portland’s Forest Park, circumventing safeguards TRANSPORTATION HOUSE Significant portions of Oregon’s VOTE that limit sprawling development on PAY-AS-YOU-DRIVE • HB 2043 coast have been hardened with 17 forestland outside UGBs. HOUSE SENATE beachfront protective structures VOTE VOTE A rare positive outcome or “rip-rap.” House Bill 3228 would NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. 21 7 for the environment have weakened protections against the Passed House, May 21, 35-21 this session, House Bill use of rip-rap along beachfront property, Passed Senate, July 23, 20-9 2043 provides a $100 per policy tax mainly roads, leading to even more Governor Vetoed credit to auto insurance companies who coastline hardening. While rip-rap can offer Pay-As-You-Drive (PAYD), or help protect certain landowners in the mileage-based insurance. PAYD is a short-term, studies show it shifts erosion LAND USE customer option that rewards drivers and other serious impacts to different who reduce their mileage – an innova- areas of the coastline, threatening EXPANDS UGB REGARDLESS tive way to address Oregon’s problem of beaches used by people and wildlife. OF NEED • SB 763 increased auto exhaust, and help curb HOUSE SENATE global warming. The tax credit is avail- NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. VOTE VOTE Senate Bill 763 would have required Metro able from 2005-2010 and is capped at Passed House, May 1, 32-24 6 20 (the regional govern- $1 million over the life of the credit. Died in Senate ment for the Portland Metropolitan YES IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. area) to analyze land needs on a Passed House, April 23, 41-16 “sub-regional” basis and to expand the Passed Senate, June 19, 16-12 LAND USE UGB based on that analysis. This means Governor Signed RURAL SPRAWL • HB 3315
HOUSE VOTE House Bill 3315 would have allowed the construction of 18 single-family dwellings on lots if the dwelling could have been built under applicable laws existing on November 4, 1993. This change would have allowed thousands of new dwellings unrelated to agriculture or forestry to be built on some of Oregon’s most productive farm and forest land. NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. Passed House, May 6, 33-26