This Project Saved Oregon Homes From Wildfires, But Can It Be Duplicated?

Lightning started a forest fire one August afternoon near the Oregon tourist town of Sisters, and it was spreading fast. Residents in outlying areas evacuated as flames marched toward their homes.

Just a few months earlier, the U.S. Forest Service and a group of locals representing environmental, logging and recreational interests arranged to thin part of the overgrown forest, creating a buffer zone around Sisters.

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