The Permaculture Land Users Group of Oregon (PLUG-Oregon) seeks to empower a coalition of land users to advance policies supportive of small-scale food production, water security, and climate resilience for people, flora, and fauna through advocacy and education.
About PLUG-Oregon
The impacts of climate change including drought, high temperatures, and increased likelihood and severity of wildfires affect all residents of Oregon.
People involved in food production and land stewardship are acutely aware of these impacts, most especially as they relate to water management, and work to address them every day using innovative practices and techniques.
PLUG’s diverse group of land-owners, permaculture designers, farmers, educators, and policy advocates is advancing these practices and techniques, for wide-scale adoption in order to mitigate the impacts of climate change at home, in the community, and regionally.
Our Approach
PLUG is working to achieve its goals with five primary endeavors to:
Enable small-scale surface water storage and diversion
Promote landscape-scale water retention
Provide education and outreach to property/homeowners to navigate water regulations for the benefit of watershed health
Connect groundwater and surface water conceptually and legally
Identify and address non-scientific water laws that are hindering watershed health
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