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Archive Home > 2008 > August > 19 > Fire’s advance won’t alter tactics

Fire’s advance won’t alter tactics

Officials stand behind letting some fires burn, but at least one neighbor protests

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
August 19, 2008

OCHOCO NATIONAL FOREST — Fire crews had hoped that the Bridge Creek Fire in the Ochoco Mountains would stay in the wilderness just east of Forest Road 2630-450.

But the lodgepole pines and firs on both sides of the road were charred, soils had turned to ash and downed logs were....

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