The project rests in the district of Salem’s most powerful lawmaker.
BY NIGEL JAQUISS
Oregon Journalism Project
As lawmakers finished the 2025 session, the so-called Christmas tree bill contained few presents larger than the $45 million included in House Bill 5006 for the Willamette Falls Trust to purchase Moore’s Island, about 60 acres of property available now because of the closure of West Linn Paper Co.
That appropriation comes amid intertribal controversy: The Grand Ronde Tribe,…