About Merissa
Merissa Moeller advises clients on the use and development of natural resources, with emphases on water resources and rural land use matters. Merissa brings nearly a decade of experience working with Oregon’s natural resource users. During that time, she has represented individual landowners and developers, businesses and local governments, state natural resources agencies, an interstate land use planning commission, and the courts. With that broad policy perspective, Merissa is a strategic problem solver who helps clients tackle complex regulatory issues from multiple angles.
Merissa’s water and natural resources practice includes strategic counseling, regulatory compliance, and permitting work on behalf of the hydropower industry and other renewable energy developers, municipal water utilities, irrigation districts, wineries, the timber industry, and other natural resource users. She advises clients on water resource development, water rights and water quality, and fish and wildlife laws.
In her land use practice, Merissa represents developers before local governments, the Land Use Board of Appeals, and Oregon’s appellate courts. She has particular experience working with rural developers, including renewable energy companies, to site projects on agricultural and forest land protected for its natural resource values. Merissa’s cross-disciplinary expertise enables her to approach permitting and compliance challenges strategically and holistically.
During law school, Merissa worked on behalf of Oregon’s natural resource agencies with the Oregon Department of Justice and as a legal extern for the Columbia River Gorge Commission. Merissa also served as a judicial clerk at the Oregon Supreme Court and Oregon Court of Appeals for the Honorable Lynn Nakamoto and Honorable Roger DeHoog.
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