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BLM field managers brief Umatilla County on wildfire season, salvage harvests and coordination needs
Summary
Bureau of Land Management officials updated commissioners on last summer's wildfire impacts, salvage timber sales and post-fire stabilization work and asked counties to identify priority areas for future fuels management and timber projects.
Sarah Sherman, field manager for the Bureau of Land Management's Baker Field Office, told the Umatilla County Board of Commissioners that last summer's fire season was unusually severe and that BLM staff continue to work on salvage and stabilization projects.
"For the record, ... almost 650,000 acres of eastern ... being consumed by wildfire this year," Sherman said, and she reported that about 366,000 acres of that total burned on…
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