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Tell Your State Representatives to Invest in Community Resiliency for Future Fire Seasons!

As we continue to pick up the pieces from this year's wildfires and prepare for another legislative session, the state of Oregon has a choice — it can continue to advance ineffective and harmful approaches to reducing wildfire risk, or it can move forward science-backed policies that will protect homes and communities in wildfire seasons to come. By focusing from the home outward, we can live with fire.

Please ask your elected officials to prioritize actions proven to be most effective at helping Oregonians prepare for and adapt to future fires!

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Ask your elected officials to prioritize community-centered wildfire defense!

Send a letter to Governor Brown and your state representatives to tell them that any money spent in wildfire prevention and recovery should be focused on fire-wising our communities, not logging deep in the forest far away from homes and communities!

Oregon Governor Kate Brown

Subject: Invest in Fire Solutions that Work!

Message:

As communities across Oregon pick up the pieces from this year’s tragic wildfires, I urge you to allocate dollars and adopt policies that focus fire protection efforts from the home outward. Communities across Oregon need your support to get fire ready.  This means hardened homes so they don’t ignite, creating a youth fire corps to thin out vegetation around population centers and providing local communities with firefighting resources for when fire comes.   Instead of spending tens of millions of dollars cutting deep in the backwoods, we can train the next generation to work in the woods around our homes.  Instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars an hour on air tankers that are grounded in high wind events, we need to spend the limited resources we have to prepare our homes and communities for fire.   Wildfire scientists have documented how the large fires in the American West are primarily driven by extreme weather conditions, not the amount of vegetation on the landscape.  Just like we cannot take a cup and make the ocean less wet, we cannot make the vastness of Oregon less flammable - as grasslands and shrublands burn too, and because this is Oregon the plants and trees grow back rapidly. We saw how a big wind event played out in the Labor Day fires. The Alameda fire destroyed more homes than any of the other fires of this season combined, and never burned in a forest at all.  Hundreds of thousands of acres burned because electrical power lines were not de-energized.  These events amply demonstrated that we cannot cut or fight our way to a fire free future. What can we do?  Well can prioritize dollars to secure homes and communities.  We can train the next generation to help us prepare for fire and deal with the smoke. We have already lost so much, and so we can act to reserve what’s left of our older, fire resilient forests while addressing the risk posed by decades of mismanagement. Thank you for your service and leadership.

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Oregon Senator Jeff Golden

Subject: Invest in FireWise Solutions that Work!

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