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Archive Home > 2005 > July > 01 > Taxpayers may foot fire costs

Taxpayers may foot fire costs

House bill shifts forestland fire-insurance expenses

By James Sinks / The Bulletin
July 1, 2005

SALEM - State taxpayers should shoulder more of the costs of protecting Oregon's private forestland from fires, the House decided Thursday.

The legislation, which now heads to the Senate, is the culmination of more than two years of work by the timber industry and rural lawmakers to rework how....

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