Wasco 2040, Wasco County’s periodic review of its comprehensive land use plan, has wrapped up its revisions in regards to housing, so the next topic will be Goal 5 on environmental, open space, and historic resources. County long-range planner Kelly Howsley-Glover says for this goal, state law is much more prescriptive than in other areas, particularly in how resources are inventoried and how they go about deciding uses that may conflict with them and how they are protected. Topics that figure to be addressed include modifying wild and scenic rivers protections in the County, along with sensitive wildlife including big game. Howsley-Glover says the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has indicated it might like to merge rules on big game with other species-driven protections to develop a habitat-based protection model.