Researchers at OSU identify ways to minimize range fires in sagelands. (Central Oregon Fire Management Services) Nearly 45% of historic sagebrush ecosystems in the Great Basin – 200,000 square miles of California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming – have been lost to invasive plants, grasses and wildfires, according to[Read More…]
Tag: OREGON WILDFIRES
Fire-detecting cameras to be installed across state with $4.5 million investment
Smoke rises from a stump along the North Santiam River near Gates on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) Oregon will soon have nearly 60 cameras across the state perched on cell phone towers, old fire towers and mountaintops, watching for potential forest fires across the state. The cameras,[Read More…]
Uncategorized AROUND OREGON: Other utilities cut power to reduce fire risks. Pacific Power didn’t, and may face the consequences.
A sprinkler waters a field amidst wildfire smoke in Aumsville on Tuesday, September 8. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) In June 2019, Pacific Power representatives attended a community fair in Happy Camp, California, 20 miles south of the Oregon border, to share highlights of the wildfire prevention plan the company had been[Read More…]
Breitenbush Hot Springs loses half its buildings to wildfires, hopes to reopen in 2021
Tim McDevitt and Daniel Dundon, on the left, stayed behind at Breitenbush Hot Springs overnight as fire burned around them. They were joined on Tuesday, Sept. 8, by Fire Chief Jordan Pollack. Capt. Neil Clasen and Erik Wennstrom of the Breitenbush Fire Department. (Breitenbush Fire Department photo) One of Oregon’s[Read More…]
Uncategorized Help your news team at Salem Reporter cover this fire catastrophe
Smoke from wildfires filters the morning sun over the West Salem Shopping Center on Tuesday, Sept. 8. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) The wildfire sweeping west out of the Cascades is proving to be horribly destructive and we want help from our readers to accurately report on developments. The entire news team[Read More…]
