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May 5, 2016

Crews building fuel breaks to reduce risk of wildfires in Oregon and Idaho

  • The U.S. Bureau of Land Management fuel break project is part of a $67 million rehabilitation effort.
    • By KEITH RIDLER
    Associated Press

    BOISE, Idaho — Federal officials are putting in emergency fuel breaks in southwest Idaho and southeast Oregon to reduce wildfire risk while they work on an environmental assessment for a larger fuel break project for the area.

    The U.S. Bureau of Land Management fuel break project is part of a $67 million rehabilitation effort following a wildfire last year that scorched 436 square miles of sagebrush steppe that supports cattle grazing and some 350 species of wildlife, including sage grouse.


     
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