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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 12 > Grass burning issue reignites in Oregon

Grass burning issue reignites in Oregon

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
July 12, 2008

EUGENE — The issue of grass burning may reignite soon in Oregon.

Farmers, many of them concentrated in the flat lands north of Eugene-Springfield, ordinarily burn about 50,000 acres of seed fields after the harvest each year. The flames are a means of guarding the purity of the lawn....

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