A healing flame

As fire season subsides, crews are using controlled burns to keep forests healthy — and to prevent catastrophic blazes in the future

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
October 19, 2008

OCHOCO NATIONAL FOREST —

The fire crews spread out across the top of the hillside, flaming drip torches in hand. Stepping on and around rocks and logs, wading through tangled sticks and twigs, they took aim at piles of dried-out slash called “jackpots.”

In a matter....

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