Community planning told the council the Columbia Gorge Commission adopted a management-plan amendment to clarify disaster-recovery permitting for landowners in the gorge; council supported scheduling a work session to review the amendment.

Weed and Pest District highlights funding concerns while proposing budget increases for landowner programs.

County recommends simplifying ditch cleaning permits for landowners to manage blow dirt efficiently.

Summit Carbon Solutions staff updated Worth County supervisors on new leadership, a statewide community benefits agreement and local payments including annual landowner easement payments and an emergency responders grant estimated at $69,000 for Worth County.

Counties coordinate aerial spraying programs reducing costs for landowners to combat spongy moths.

The Sumner County Commission unanimously adopted an amended resolution urging the Tennessee Valley Authority to use existing easements and avoid routing a high‑voltage transmission line across the Gregory family farm and Wallace Road community, after public comment and map-based amendments.

The Northern RAC unanimously approved revisions to the 2025–27 hunt tables and season dates, including an extended-archery modification designed to address private-land elk depredation and increase opportunity. Biologist Sam Robertson said the rule changes are intended to push elk onto public lands and reduce conflicts; the RAC and public offered a