Tillamook County enacts new wetland process

Wetland restoration projects on farmland will have to clear a new hurdle in Oregon’s Tillamook County to ensure they don’t disrupt agricultural practices. However, the county’s newly enacted ordinance isn’t expected to block wetland projects as much as steer them to the least-contentious areas, experts say.“Nobody’s intention was that we never see another wetland project in Tillamook,” said Mary Anne Nash, public policy counsel for the Oregon Farm Bureau.Landowners throughout most of Oregon are allowed outright to convert properties in “exclusive farm use” zones into wetlands, allowing them to sell credits to offset development on wetlands elsewhere.