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  • Will more logging stop Oregon's wildfires?

    Roz Brown, Oregon News Service|Jul 29, 2021

    As the Bootleg fire burns in southern Oregon, the U.S. Senate is considering an infrastructure package that environmental scientists say contains misguided provisions. The infrastructure bill would include billions in funding for the U.S. Forest Service in the name of wildfire prevention. Dr. Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist for Wild Heritage and an evacuee of last year’s wildfire in Talent, Oregon, said increasingly the term “wildfires” is a misnomer because they become urban fires that destroy unprepared communities. “Every dollar spent i...