The Department of Agriculture will restart some wildfire grants, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek told POLITICO on Saturday.

Months after Oregon's historic wildfire season burned nearly two million acres of land, destroyed dozens of homes, and injured civilians and fire responders, federal help to mitigate future wildfires could be at risk,

Researchers from the University of Washington say the top three smokiest cities in the country are all in Oregon.

The Trump administration's cuts to federal land management agencies have created an uncertain future on Oregon's public lands.

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

In addition to Medford, Grants Pass and Bend, several other Oregon cities made their top 10 list: Klamath Falls (#5), Roseburg (#6) and Eugene/Springfield (#10). The smokiest city in Washington was Yakima (#15).

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

Democratic state Senator Anthony Broadman of Bend on Thursday joined a recent call by Republican lawmakers to repeal the state's revised wildfire hazard map, saying it doesn't "create an equitable system" or account for variance among properties.

That work, which includes shredding of trees and vegetation, is to protect the community from wildfire as well as improve wildlife habitat. But with only a third of the project completed, those efforts are on hold,

Gov. Tina Kotek urged lawmakers this week to buckle down and make “hard decisions” about how to increase state funding for wildfire mitigation and fire fighting.

Liz Crandall, a former field ranger with the Deschutes National Forest in Central Oregon, was part of that team, and is among the fired Forest Service staff. As a park ranger, Crandall spent most of her time patrolling vast wildlands around Central Oregon, clearing abandoned campfires and responding to emergencies.

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