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OPINION: Prescribed burns on federal lands would mitigate extreme fire seasons

by MADI CLARK/Guest Opinion
| August 6, 2023 1:00 AM

As a former wildland firefighter for four years (2008-11), peak fire season would migrate north in late summer, to our district in Eastern Oregon, but the critical practice of prescribed burning was infrequently used in our region. Twelve years later, the fire seasons still migrate north, and millions of acres continue to be destroyed annually by extreme fires because our region largely avoids prescribed burning....

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