Supporting Illegal Immigrants & SRS Proposal
Supporting Illegal Immigrants & SRS Proposal plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.
Yesterday House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings unveiled a draft proposal to address the expiration of the Secure Rural Schools program. The draft proposal, Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act, renews the federal government’s commitment to manage forest resources for the benefit of rural schools and counties by allowing active forest management projects to take place in areas specifically identified by the U.S. Forest Service as capable of timber production. Hastings had promised last week that this legislation would be introduced.
HASTINGS: We will be introducing legislation calling for more timber harvest on federal lands. We think that is a long-term solution to this issue of Secure Rural Schools.
Oregon has taken a couple of steps to help integrate thousands of illegal immigrants into the state. On Tuesday, Governor Kitzhaber signed a bill granting resident tuition at public universities for people who can’t prove citizenship. On another front eight Oregon lawmakers introduced a bill that would make it possible for people living in the state without documentation to obtain driver’s licenses valid for four years.
Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.
Myself and many like me have found that sitting behind a desk at a computer for most of the day brings on a physical, mental and emotional fatigue all of its own. We’ve discovered that a walk around the block or a stroll through a local park goes a long way in rejuvenating a “ fuzzy brain”. A new study from Scotland supports this. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh monitored the brain activity of twelve healthy young adults using portable EEGs while they walked through different areas, a park, a busy commercial district, and a shopping district. No surprise here that the park like setting brought on a sense of calm relaxation. In this day and age of continuous stimuli and connectivity many people feel a sense of guilt if they “disconnect” themselves even for brief amounts of time. But we need to take those breaks from work or study in order to clear our heads so we can function better and cope with the world around us. Taking the time to interact with the natural environment, or even just viewing a green space from your office window shouldn’t be considered unproductive, it is restorative recovery therapy. It’s necessary, and it’s free!
Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.
