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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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