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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 13 > Fields set ablaze for final time

Fields set ablaze for final time

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
August 13, 2009

HARRISBURG " Columns of gray smoke sprang from the fields north of Eugene-Springfield this week " signs that grass seed farmers were working to burn straw off spent fields for the last time as a ban on field burning draws near.

In June, Oregon lawmakers voted to cut in half the acreage....

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