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Work on four new sidewalk murals began on July 20 as part of Springfields 8th annual Upstream Art Project.

The 16,000 acres of trees incinerated in the 2003 Davis Fire were a call to action for Deschutes National Forest managers. The wide-ranging destruction caused by the wildfire convinced them that if they were going to prevent a repeat in the future, they’d have to go big. That fire also destroyed more than 3,700 acres of northern spotted owl habitat, highlighting a lethal hazard faced by the threatened species despite strict logging restrictions imposed on the “late successional reserv...