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Cameras keep an eye out for fires

Mountaintop cameras are the newest tool for finding wildfires, and unlike human lookouts, the cameras are on duty…

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Black, Red, Green

Trevor Lewis is standing beside the black skeleton of what used to be a willow tree, and he…

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BLM enacting fire restrictions

The Bureau of Land Management’s Vale District is enacting more stringent fire season restrictions, including a ban on…

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Focus on fire safety

With fire season arriving early due to drought and a record-setting heatwave, some Baker County property owners are…

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OTEC says outages possible if wildfire risk gets severe

Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative wants its members to know that there is a potential that the cooperative will…

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Lightning sparked 2 small fires

Temperatures aren’t the only thing more typical of late July than of late June in Northeastern Oregon. Wildfire…

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From graduate to intern in 2 days

In just two days, Joanna Mann went from college student to newspaper intern in the smallest town she’s…

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High-level position

Joel McCraw needed to find someone willing to spend the summer atop a mountain that has a three-state…

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Fire managers: threats from the sky, and on the ground

Noel Livingston and Joel McCraw ponder the coming fire season with not a small amount of dread. In…

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Senator: federal forests need help

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley said this week that he will lobby the Biden administration to spend at least…

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