Statesman Journal

Oregon Senate passes bill to eliminate controversial wildfire risk map

An Oregon bill that would eliminate a controversial wildfire hazard map moved one step closer to reality on April 22 after it passed the Oregon Senate. It now moves onto the House. Senate Bill 83 ...
Statesman Journal

Bill to eliminate controversial Oregon wildfire risk map moves forward

An Oregon bill that would eliminate a controversial wildfire hazard map moved one step closer to reality on Tuesday after unanimously passing the Senate Committee on Natural Resources. Senate Bill 83 ...
OPB

An architect of Oregon’s wildfire map on why he now supports repealing it

After Oregon’s devastating 2020 Labor Day fires, the Legislature passed a bill that was supposed to lead to more wildfire awareness and resilience. Among other things, Senate Bill 762 created a map of ...
Oregonian

How rapid spread of misinformation pushed lawmakers to kill Oregon’s wildfire risk map

This story was originally published by ProPublica. This is how misinformation gets accepted as fact. A year after Oregon endures its most destructive fire season on record in 2020, state lawmakers ...