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Forest Service officials reported the W-470 Fire near McKenzie Bridge at 90 percent contained as of June 7.

Forest Service officials reported the W-470 Fire near McKenzie Bridge at 90 percent contained as of June 7.

Forest Service officials said windy weather caused several spot fires near a prescribed burn they thought was under control.

Firefighters are working on a wildfire that took off when sudden wind gusts fanned a prescribed burn that was considered contained, the U.S. Forest Service reported late Tuesday night. KEZI-TV reported that a prescribed burn was under way near the community of McKenzie Bridge, upstream from Eugene, Oregon, on the McKenzie River, on May 30. Though the prescribed burn was started when weather was within planned parameters, gusty winds started two spot fires near the 65-acre burn area.

U.S. Forest Service officials announced on Thursday that Willamette National Forest will receive $14.7 million in federal funding for wildfire fuels reduction.

In this episode, Zach talks about the Forest Services new plan to reopen 170,000 acres of forest that burned in the Labor Day Fires in 2020.

Oregonians may be able to return to some of their favorite places that burned in the 2020 Labor Day Fires.

The federal agency has withdrawn a plan to log so-called danger trees along more than 400 miles of roads in the forest after legal challenges.

The move throws into question when access will be restored to Opal Creek, the Breitenbush area and the northern Mount Jefferson Wilderness.