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U.S. Ag Secretary Vilsack says nation, Oregon facing 'larger challenges'


PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says Congress needs to do for the national forests what the Oregon Legislature and Gov. Kate Brown have just done to boost firefighting efforts and reduce the threat of wildfires, more of them likely to occur with a warming climate.
Vilsack spoke with reporters Tuesday after he and Brown toured a farm near Salem and were briefed by officials about the status of wildfires, particularly the Bootleg fire that has consumed more than 400,000 acres northeast of Klamath Falls. Much of that acreage is within the Fremont-Winema National Forest.
Brown has signed state legislation (Senate Bill 762) that stems from recommendations of her Council on Wildfire Response back in 2019. Attached to it is $220 million in state funds to increase the number of firefighters on the ground and modernize planes in the air, install automatic smoke detection cameras, map high-risk wildfire zones and define defensib ....

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Pamplin Media Group - U.S. Ag Secretary Vilsack talks wildfires in Oregon trip


August 03 2021
While visiting with Willamette Valley farmers, the cabinet member says feds must match state in firefighting and fire prevention efforts.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says Congress needs to do for the national forests what the Oregon Legislature and Gov. Kate Brown have just done to boost firefighting efforts and reduce the threat of wildfires, more of them likely to occur with a warming climate.
Vilsack spoke with reporters Tuesday, Aug. 3, after he and Brown toured a farm near Salem and were briefed by officials about the status of wildfires, particularly the Bootleg fire that has consumed more than 400,000 acres northeast of Klamath Falls. Much of that acreage is within the Fremont-Winema National Forest. ....

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Pamplin Media Group - U.S. Ag Secretary Vilsack: nation, Oregon facing 'larger challenges'


August 03 2021
While visiting with Willamette Valley farmers, the cabinet member says feds must match state in firefighting and fire prevention efforts.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says Congress needs to do for the national forests what the Oregon Legislature and Gov. Kate Brown have just done to boost firefighting efforts and reduce the threat of wildfires, more of them likely to occur with a warming climate.
Vilsack spoke with reporters Tuesday, Aug. 3, after he and Brown toured a farm near Salem and were briefed by officials about the status of wildfires, particularly the Bootleg fire that has consumed more than 400,000 acres northeast of Klamath Falls. Much of that acreage is within the Fremont-Winema National Forest. ....

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Oregon lawmakers reluctantly make $17 million downpayment on wildfire preparedness


Oregon lawmakers reluctantly make $17 million downpayment on wildfire preparedness
Updated Jan 09, 2021;
Posted Jan 09, 2021
The Riverside fire burns in the Mount Hood National Forest, seen from La Dee Flats near the Clackamas River.Mount Hood National Forest
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If anything illustrated the need for Oregon to invest more in wildfire preparedness, it was last year’s cluster of Labor Day infernos that chewed through a million acres of forestland, destroyed thousands of homes and structures and killed nine people.
Despite scores of recommendations that the governor’s Council on Wildfire Response said were urgent back in 2019, the Oregon Legislature made no headway on the issue last year after two Republican walkouts over climate change legislation. Gov. Kate Brown’s hope of addressing some of those proposals in one of the Legislature’s special sessions didn’t happen either, taking a backseat to more pressing pandemic-related funding and ....

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