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ODF launches effort to reduce wildfire risk in Lane County Of 37 total projects statewide, the agency has four in Lane County totaling $481,000. Posted: Apr 14, 2021 8:43 AM Updated: Apr 14, 2021 11:25 AM Posted By: Jolene Daib SPRINGFIELD, Ore. – The Oregon Department of Forestry is putting some of the $5 million it was granted by the Oregon Legislative Emergency Board into reducing wildfire risk in Lane County. Of 37 total projects statewide, the agency has four in Lane County totaling $481,000. The projects rely on partnerships to improve community resilience to wildfire and restore an...

Oregon Department of Forestry awards $581,000 for wildfire risk reduction projects in Lane County The Oregon Department of Forestry plans to spend $581,000 to support six projects in Lane County aimed at reducing wildfire risks.  The money is part of $5 million the Oregon Legislative Emergency Board granted ODF in January for wildfire risk mitigation. ODF will use that money on 37 projects statewide. The projects rely on partnerships with organizations such as forest collaboratives, watershed councils, Oregon State University, private landowners, the Northwest Youth Corps, counties, fed...

Gov. Kate Brown proclaims April as Oregon Arbor Month April has been proclaimed Oregon Arbor Month.  Gov. Kate Brown made a proclamation last week establishing a monthlong recognition of trees and planting as a result of more than a year of collaboration with nonprofit organizations and state agencies, but its timing follows statewide wildfires that burned millions of trees.   "Because trees are vital to our individual and communal well-being and future prosperity — and because all Oregonians have a stake in future health and replenishment of our urban and rural forests — there sh...

April proclaimed Arbor Month in Oregon Oregon Dept. of Forestry Portlanders plant trees in the Roseway Park Blocks SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The first week in April was just not enough time to show how much Oregonians appreciate trees. So Gov. Kate Brown has proclaimed all of April as Oregon Arbor Month, allowing plenty of time for all the tree-related activities and commemorative plantings people want.  “I appreciate Governor Brown declaring April 2021 as Oregon Arbor Month, in recognition of the essential role trees play in the lives of Oregonians,” said Oregon State Forester Peter Daugh...

Timber tax cuts cost Oregon towns billions. Then clear-cuts polluted their water and drove up the price. Updated on Jan 01, 2021; Published on Dec 31, 2020 The 400 residents of Wheeler, Oregon, where muddy logging runoff filled the town’s reservoirs. (Brooke Herbert/The Oregonian) Brooke Herbert/The Oregonian Facebook Share Twitter Share On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of residents packed into the local firehouse in Corbett, Oregon, a town about 30 miles outside of Portland. Water manager Jeff Busto told the crowd that logging had devastated a creek that provided part of the tow...