A recent court ruling has some area governmental agencies worried about being able to continue to offer free open areas for people to recreate, and asking the Oregon Legislature to do something about it.  The ruling by the state Supreme Court held that recreational immunity from tort liability in the state’s Public Lands Act was intended to only immunize the actual landowner, but not employees or volunteers acting on behalf of the landowner.  Port of The Dalles Executive Director Andrea Klaas is worried that would make it difficult for public and private landowners to offer their properties for recreational use, and to encourage volunteers to help maintain them.  A number of groups, including the League of Oregon Cities, Association of Oregon Counties, and Special Districts Association of Oregon, are pushing legislators to amend the Public Lands Act to extend recreational immunity to a landowner’s officers, employees, agents, or volunteers.