Hundreds of firefighters battled two quickly spreading fires in the Willamette National Forest in June 2023.
PHOTO/Oregon Department of Forestry/Flickr
The Oregon Department of Forestry needs more and consistent funding to fight wildfires. That much was clear following the 2020 Labor Day fires that burned nearly 850,000 acres of forests and became the state’s most expensive disaster in history.
But lawmakers are split on how to pay for it. Two Democratic senators recently unveiled competing proposals…
