Group Now Shifts Focus to Proactive Long-Term Protections
(OHA) The Oregon Secretary of State’s office officially confirmed that Initiative Petition 28 (IP28) failed to secure the required signatures to qualify for the November ballot, handing a major victory to Oregon’s conservationists, sportsmen and agricultural communities. The state’s final verification counted 104,262 valid signatures, falling well short of the 117,173-threshold needed.
Like its failed predecessors IP13 and IP3, the petition sought to criminalize hunting, fishing, trapping,…




