The Josephine County Commissioners hosted a meeting today in the Anne Basker Auditorium to allow county commissioners across Oregon to question representatives from the Oregon State University and Oregon Department … Read more
Oregonians have until Sunday 5PM on August 18 to submit public comment on the Oregon Wildfire Hazard Map. Did you know that Oregon State University had a lead role in … Read more
Last Saturday, I gave a 20-minute update on the DRAFT Oregon Wildfire Hazard Map. I presented the good and bad news regarding this notorious map. (Video shown below.) Good News … Read more
(The Center Square) – Oregon Governor Tina Kotek invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act for the eighth time this year last week. Kotek invoked it on August 1, 2024, responding to the … Read more
Wildfires burning across much of the western U.S. and Canada are causing smoke to stretch across parts of central, eastern and southern Oregon. In response, the Oregon Department of Environmental … Read more
(The Center Square) – The Larch Creek Fire has expanded to 9,100 acres in size and jumped Highway 197, forcing the highway’s closure. The human-caused fire that’s burning in Wasco County began on Tuesday afternoon near … Read more
By Bob Hart It seems like wildfires during the summer have become a way of life in Southern Oregon. But an unexpected “wildfire” was lit in the summer of 2022 … Read more
By Julie Niles-Fry I found out about SB 762, the fire map debacle law, through Facebook. I checked my mail pile for “the letter” from the Oregon Department of Forestry … Read more
By Richard Emmons In Pixar’s 1998 animated film “A Bug’s Life,” the ants worked hard and served the grasshoppers. One day a single ant questioned the order of things. The … Read more