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BLM field office briefs commissioners on wildfire season, timber salvage and collaboration
Summary
Bureau of Land Management field staff updated the Umatilla County commissioners on last season's wildfire activity, plans for salvage timber sales, invasive-grass treatments and coordination needs with county emergency management.
BLM Baker Field Office staff told Umatilla County commissioners on Feb. 5 that last summer's wildfire season was unusually severe in the region and that the agency plans targeted post-fire salvage timber sales, invasive-grass treatments and continued coordination with county emergency managers and other federal and state partners.
Sarah Sherman, BLM Baker Field Office field manager, said the agency recorded roughly 650,000 acres burned in eastern Oregon this year and that BLM acreage accounted for about 366,000 acres of that total. She said the…
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