I’ve lived in Oregon nearly 30 years. I’ve never seen it this bad for so long. The smoke is so thick I can barely see my neighbor’s house.
Our forests have been mismanaged due to environment whackos like our Governor. Companies used to be allowed to go in and take fallen trees, clean up debris and make forest roads. But in the last 15 years they’ve been forbidden. Also just talked yesterday to a newly retired forestland firefighter. He said our Governor has taken away money for firefighters, new equipment etc. Seems they think it’s much more important to pay for all abortions on demand.
If they don’t get the fires under control soon there will be many health problems. No rain in sight.
I have lived in Oregon all my life (68yr) and this is certainly one of the worst fire seasons I can recall. A few weeks ago we had smoke from the BC fires in the Portland area, now it is coming from those down State. Chetco Bar is the biggest and this morning was >142KAc, plus all the others. Saw the smoke from the Eagle Creek fire when driving to Sandy last night. Report is it exploded to 3KAc overnight. FYI: I go to gacc.nifc.gov/nwcc for fire info during the summer fire season.