CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) — People’s cultural worldviews play a part in how they respond to wildfire risk, and should be taken into account in efforts to get homeowners to engage in pre-fire mitigation efforts such as adjusting landscaping and preparing an evacuation plan, an Oregon State University study found. The study tapped into participants’ cultural worldviews and
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By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. is directing $930 million toward reducing wildfire dangers in 10 western states by clearing trees and underbrush from national forests, the Biden administration announced Thursday, as officials struggle to protect communities from destructive infernos being made worse by climate change. Under a strategy now
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Sisters Ranger District fire specialists are conducting brush removal work with Forest Service staff and contractors to mow about 3,300 acres of brush across several sites in three project areas, including by Highway 20 and in the Camp Sherman area.
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Firefighters on the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District plan to resume pile burning operations Wednesday adjacent to Highway 97 between Lava Butte north to the weigh station on the west side of the highway.
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The Bureau of Land Management recently transferred a water tender to the Wheeler County Fire and Rescue Rangeland Fire Protection Association and a wildland fire engine to the Alfalfa Fire District to enhance their wildland firefighting capabilities.
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon State Fire Marshal has opened the application period for a new $18 million grant fund geared toward helping communities be better prepared for wildfire.
Continue ReadingWEED, Calif. (AP) — A lumber company that owns a Northern California wood veneers manufacturing plant linked to a deadly fast-spreading blaze that killed two people and sent thousands fleeing for their lives has reached a settlement agreement with more than 700 people who filed wrongful death, personal injury, and property loss claims. Roseburg Forest
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The Oregon Department of Forestry said Monday it is seeking members for an advisory committee for its new Certified Burn Manager Program, one of many new programs established under Senate Bill 762 in 2021 to help address Oregon’s wildfire crisis.
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The Forest Service is burning piles of woody debris, including this week along Highway 97 near Lava Butte, as part of wildfire fuels reduction projects around the region.
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Firefighters on the Deschutes National Forest’s Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District plan to conduct pile-burning operations this week adjacent to Highway 97 between Lava Butte north to the weigh station.
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EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ) — High up in a telecommunications tower on a South Eugene ridge, a climber is barely visible. His bright blue jacket blends in with the sky as he attaches a white microwave dish to the tower’s metal limbs. He’s part of the Oregon Hazards Lab, and on this day, its team is
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The Deschutes National Forest as of Tuesday has further reduced the temporary emergency closure area implemented as a result of the Cedar Creek Fire, while the Willamette National Forest released Burned Area Response Team evaluations of the impacts of the 127,000-acre fire.
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Several fires on state and private industrial forestland in Clatsop County, resulting from escaped burn piles and driven by east winds, have resulted in Level 3 evacuations of four homes and a limited road closure, the Oregon Department of Forestry said Friday.
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Firefighters on the Deschutes National Forest’s Bend-Fort Ranger District plan to start pile burning in areas west of Bend and Sunriver as conditions are favorable, as soon as Tuesday.
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If weather conditions are favorable, the Bureau of Land Management’s Prineville District plans to burn 13 piles of logging slash in the Outback Project area about a mile southeast of La Pine on Thursday. The 227-acre project is located within the Darlene Fire footprint from 2021.
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The Prineville District, Bureau of Land Management has begun thinning work on 622 acres of juniper in the Steelhead Falls Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project area, adjacent to the community of Crooked River Ranch.
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Firefighters on the Deschutes National Forest’s Crescent Ranger District plan to start pile-burning as conditions are favorable, officials said Wednesday.
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OAKRIDGE, Ore. (KTVZ) — The 127,311-acre Cedar Creek Fire reached 70% containment Tuesday, three months to the day after lightning sparked the blaze near Waldo Lake that roared to life in early September, threatening Oakridge, sending smoke streaming into Central Oregon and closing a wide swath of the Willamette and Deschutes national forests, including several popular lakes and resorts.
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With the recent fall weather and precipitation received in areas, local fire departments, the US Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and Oregon Department of Forestry have agreed that many areas are now safe to enter into the burn season.
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With widespread rain and cooler temperatures across the state, all Oregon Department of Forestry districts will be out of fire season as of Saturday, ending the 2022 fire season.
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