Coast Range Conifers, LLC v. State Ex Rel. Oregon State Board of Forestry

A state wildlife regulation prevents plaintiff from logging approximately nine acres of a 40-acre parcel that it owns. Plaintiff brought this action claiming that the regulation amounted to a “taking” of its property without just compensation in violation of the state and federal constitutions. The Court of Appeals agreed with plaintiff. It reasoned that, in determining whether the regulation deprived plaintiff of all economically beneficial use of the property and thus took the property, it should focus on the nine-acre parcel that the regulation affected rather than the 40-acre parcel that…