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3 Bend breweries among more than 30 urging Owyhee Canyonlands protection
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By Eric Tegethoff, Oregon News Service
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) The effort to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands is getting support from a big Oregon industry that also relies on clean water: breweries.
The list includes Deschutes Brewery, Boneyard Beer and Silver Moon Brewing in Bend.
Mike Branes is co-founder of Migration Brewing, which is among the beermakers supporting the bill to protect the landscape. Water is such an important aspect to the brewing community that taking care of that is very important to us, Branes said.
The bill, introduced by Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, would designate more than 1 million acres of the canyonlands as wilderness and more than 14 miles of the Owyhee River as wild and scenic. It also would protect grazing and land-use laws.
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