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State forestry and fire officials map landscape resiliency strategy, voluntary defensible‑space code and post‑fire programs
Summary
Officials from the Oregon Department of Forestry and the State Fire Marshal described landscape‑scale restoration and fire‑adapted community programs tied to SB 762 and HB 3940, highlighted grant programs and homeowner retrofit and wildfire loss programs in development, and emphasized the need for joined‑up mitigation and community outreach.
Kyle Williams (Oregon Department of Forestry), State Fire Marshal Mariana Ruiz Temple and Josh Bernard (ODF) told the committee that suppression alone will not solve Oregon’s wildfire challenge and outlined a multi‑pronged mitigation and community strategy.
ODF leads a 20‑year landscape resiliency strategy under Senate Bill 762 to address about 13 million high‑risk acres through treatments such as thinning,…
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