Out of the Ashes eugeneweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eugeneweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The drinking water that flows out of taps in Eugene remains among the best in the nation, according to a federally required report just released by the
McKenzie Recovery eugeneweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eugeneweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The Holiday Farm Fire has been mostly contained since October, but the Bureau of Land Management is now proposing salvage harvesting, a controversial forest management practice where trees affected by natural disaster are logged.
The BLM is proposing more than 1,500 acres in salvage timber sales on the McKenzie watershed and could bypass environmental assessments because the Trump administration has expanded the use of categorical exclusions, which allow federal agencies to move faster on salvage harvesting. But the BLM says environmental impacts are still considered in this rule and selling affected trees would mean fewer living trees cut down this year.