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Archive Home > 2005 > August > 28 > Where there's smoke, expect health ailments

Where there's smoke, expect health ailments

Field burning and wildfires fill Central Oregon's air with lung-clogging particulates.

By Kayley Mendenhall / The Bulletin
August 28, 2005

Every day for nine weeks between the end of July and middle of September, Kathy Sullivan checks the weather and makes an important call.

As coordinator for the Jefferson County Smoke Management Plan, it's Sullivan's job to decide if and when farmers can burn their wheat and grass fields.

She....

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