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County highlights prescribed-fire pilot report showing increased acreage but warns sustained coordination required
Summary
Deschutes County officials shared a University of Oregon after-action review of a 2024 prescribed-fire smoke management pilot that allowed substantially more prescribed burning around west Bend; staff said repeating that scale will require coordinated commitments from land managers and air-quality and public-health agencies.
County officials at the board meeting distributed an after-action report prepared by the University of Oregon reviewing a 2024 prescribed-fire smoke management pilot that enabled a larger amount of prescribed burning around west Bend than in prior years.
A staff member told commissioners that the pilot allowed “something like 9 to 10 times the amount of prescribed fire in the areas immediately…
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