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September 22, 2016

Wildfire rehab in Idaho and Oregon includes fall herbicide

By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press

BOISE, Idaho — The federal government's 5-year, $67 million rehabilitation effort following a 2015 rangeland wildfire in southwest Idaho and southeast Oregon is entering its second year with another round of herbicide applications combined with plantings of native species.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has started applying the herbicide Imazapic on federal lands to knock out invasive weeds in Oregon and will begin in Idaho in October, officials said this week.


 
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