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The State Land Board will vote in October on a plan to put most of the forest into carbon storage and crediting.

Two years ago Oregon officials pulled their map showing the fire hazard of properties throughout the state. That was after public backlash by those worried the data would impact home values and insurance rates. The state has released a new draft map. And people are still concerned.

An assessment of wildfire hazards across Oregon landscapes is getting a new name after drawing the ire of property owners previously identified as high risk.

Agency officials said firefighters are hard to hire and retain, and are often left to sleep in their trucks or camp on the job due to a lack of housing.

The Oregon Department of Forestry said it鈥檚 making good progress fighting a nearly 500 acre wildfire in Southern Oregon's Applegate Valley south of the community of Ruch.

Kotek had scrapped plans earlier this month to nominate two men to the Oregon Forestry Board.

Nominations to the board that sets state timber policy are often fought over by logging and environmental interests.

The Jewell School District in the Clatsop State Forest predicts it could lose nearly $1 million in revenue if a plan to scale back logging is implemented.

Oregon forestry officials are moving ahead with a controversial plan that will reduce logging on state lands west of the Cascades.

A proposal that would charge each Oregon property owner $10 a year to offset rising fees that timber and ranch landowners pay to the state for fire protection has gone through major changes in recent days.

Several timber companies participated in a workgroup and proposal that would cut the fees they pay to the state for fire protection.

Two senators aim to boost funding to the state鈥檚 firefighting efforts, one funded by the public, the other by timber companies.