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Wes Morgan is an enthusiastic supporter of the effort to protect Oregon’s rural homes from wildfire.

Come with us on a virtual road trip. We’ll start in the Cascade Range near the Willamette Valley and head south on Interstate 5. We’ll stop in towns with names like Detroit, Gates, Blue River, Vida, Phoenix and Talent. Or at least they used to be towns. They — and the people who lived there — were victims of the ferocious wildfires that blew through parts of Washington state and Oregon on Labor Day. In Oregon, Washington and California, wildfires destroyed 14,689 homes this year, and 6.3 million acres of forests were burned. Surveying the damage, we shake our head and ask ...