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The 2024 Oregon wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of Oregon.. Predictions for the 2024 fire season made by the National Interagency Fire Center forecast above average wildfire potential in the southeastern portion of the state and average wildfire potential throughout the rest of Oregon.
The Bureau of Land Management Back Country Byways are roads that have been designated by the Bureau of Land Management as scenic byways. Some are also National Scenic Byways or National Forest Scenic Byways. The program was initiated in 1989 and 54 byways have since been designated in the Western United States. [1]
The 2022 Oregon wildfire season was a series of wildfires burning in the U.S. state of Oregon. On August 28, 2022, Governor Kate Brown declared a statewide emergency because multiple wildfires, including the Rum Creek Fire. [1] [2] That same month, Governor Brown invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act because of the Miller Road/Dodge Fire. [3]
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[65] 53 million acres (210,000 km 2) are productive forests and woodlands on public domain lands and 2.4 million acres (9,700 km 2) are on O&C lands in western Oregon. [65] Fatigued BLM Firefighters taking a break after a fire in Oregon in 2008. Firefighting. Well in excess of 3,000 full-time equivalent firefighting personnel work for BLM. [66]
The Dutch Fire sparked about 3:30 p.m. along Lowell Hill Road near the Dutch Flat Forebay’s dam in Nevada County and burned at least 45 acres near the border with Placer County, according to Cal ...
Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) is a conservation ecology program in the Western United States, managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The ACEC program was conceived in the 1976 Federal Lands Policy and Management Act ( FLPMA ), which established the first conservation ecology mandate for the BLM.
Those Federal lands are administered by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management. Because the Glass Buttes complex has abundant, high-quality obsidian, the Bureau of Land Management has reserved 36 square miles (93 km 2) as a free-use area where the public can gather obsidian for private use. No permits are required; however ...