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Archive Home > 2006 > February > 05 > Protecting their land

Protecting their land

Rural ranchers in Central Oregon are forming firefighting collectives to battle blazes on their property

By Ernestine Bousquet / The Bulletin
February 5, 2006

BROTHERS - It was a Friday night in the High Desert, and a group of ranchers with scuffed hands and worn jeans hunkered over a map showing the checkerboard of private rangeland and public tracts in their enclave that stretches across three counties.

In a color-coded instant, the men and women....

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