The U.S. Department of Agriculture is sending $38 million to Oregon to improve wildfire resilience, U.S. senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced today.
Efforts to make room for rivers to spread out on floodplains hold promise as a solution to capture and store water and to help struggling fish and ecosystems.
A federal government effort to "confront the wildfire crisis" in the Western United States is making the Klamath River Basin the largest of 11 new landscape designations for extra support.