Oregon lawmakers want to kill a wildfire risk map meant to identify areas of high risk that has become a lightning rod for ...

Kotek directed the state forestry department to pause any further action based on the map until the Legislature decides to ...

Wildfires have been a growing problem in Oregon for the last few years and there is an ongoing debate in Salem about how to ...

Republican state lawmakers held a press conference on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025 on their efforts to repeal a wildfire risk map in ...

There’s been a bit of controversy since Oregon officials released the wildfire property risk maps which are intended to ...

Oregon Republican legislators are coming out against the state’s wildfire hazard map and seeking its repeal. The map ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry is accepting all appeals to the statewide wildfire hazard map up until Mar. 10, under ...

Wildfire prevention work in some high-risk parts of Oregon has slowed after federal funding was frozen by the Trump ...

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has ordered the Oregon Department of Forestry to continue to accept all appeals of the Oregon Wildfire Hazard Map.

There’s also the option of shearing off a piece of a larger ranch. For example, the 9,091-acre Valpey Butte Ranch ($14.5 ...

Sen. Jeff Golden (D-Ashland) plans to reintroduce a bill to help wildfire-affected communities. Golden’s past attempts failed ...

Nearly four years ago, in the aftermath of the state’s most destructive wildfires in history, the Oregon Legislature passed a bipartisan package of wildfire prevention initiatives, including one that ...