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Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPBThe Legislature spent $218 million to cover the costs of the most expensive fire season on record. -
Brett Brown/APThis year鈥檚 record wildfire season has left contractors who fought fires sitting unpaid for months.
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The $20,000 salary increase for wildland firefighters in the 2021 infrastructure law could be coming to an end next week if Congress doesn鈥檛 act. -
State agencies say they don鈥檛 have enough money to pay for a fire season that burned almost 2 million acres. Lawmakers will step in to help next month. -
A partial list from the Oregon Department of Forestry shows it has collected $86,000 of $24 million it paid to fight several dozen wildfires that were maliciously or negligently ignited over the last two decades. -
Three prominent Republicans are calling for legislative action on wildfire policy that targets scaling back forest conservation and logging restrictions. -
Oregon and Washington leaders are using the start of the region鈥檚 wildfire season to once again ask Congress for more money for prescribed burns. -
Three proposals to boost wildfire funding this session have died though one bill, to protect wildfire survivor settlements, is on its way to Gov. Kotek.
