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What should be done with the dead trees cut down along Hwy. 20?
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1,096 Votes

What should be done with the dead trees cut down along Hwy. 20?

Leave them there.

2

Sell the lumber.

16

Leave them there.

2 Comments
Linda Nolin
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Linda Nolin

Let people cut it up for fire wood! So many couldn't get wood because of the fire danger and cutting was closed. I for one do not have enough wood to last the winter.

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Len Parsons
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Len Parsons

And let people cut them up for firewood

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Sell the lumber.

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Brandy Barr
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Brandy Barr

HELP PEOPLE BY SELLING IT CHEAPER THAN MOST THAT JUST MONEY HUNGRY!!! $25 A CORD WOULD HELP A LOT OF SENIORS ON S.S. THAT HAVE TO LIVE DAY BY DAY TO SURVIVE!!!

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Robert Keepers
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Robert Keepers

Give the wood to poor

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Ka San
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Ka San

I agree with Leslie. Donate the wood to people who may not be able to afford to buy it.

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Leslie Ann
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Leslie Ann

Not sell but donate to those who need to heat with wood.

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Gramma Jean
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Gramma Jean

Let private firewood companies come there to clean it up, then sell it.

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sharder8
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sharder8

Leaving it that provides more fuel for future fires. The profits from selling the lumber will help the industry and provide jobs and funds for reforestation projects or upgrades to the rec areas.

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Matthew Carter
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Matthew Carter

What's the point of leaving a bunch of dead trees along the road that ODOT (or whom ever) killed??? I get trees are natural but their demise was not.

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GT Thomas
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GT Thomas

Duh do you really have to ask why we should not waste wood.

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Richard Dillard
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Richard Dillard

I would hate to see these trees go to waste and the forest service could put the money to good use

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Mou Chat Reed
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Mou Chat Reed

Use them for heavens sake.

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Duane Oakes
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Duane Oakes

I would not sell the lumber. what I would like to see is the lumber milled into post and other timbers to use on our roads and hwys. This lumber could be used for guardrails and signage along Oregon.

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Sharon Catania
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Sharon Catania

Do not leave them there, but do not cut them down for selling, either. They have been sprayed with herbicide, so if someone were to burn them as firewood, it would be a risk to health.

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Michael Stream
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Michael Stream

Sell it off to highest bidder. Use funds to restore other forest areas. This also gets it all cleaned up to help in avoiding more forest fires.

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Teri Williams
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Teri Williams

Sell the lumber....need to open our forests to timber sales and clean up the mess.

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Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?
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171 Votes

Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?

YES

0

NO

0

YES

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No one has commented yet

NO

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    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?
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1,334 Votes

    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?

YES

12

NO

1

YES

12 Comments
Barb Hayden
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Barb Hayden

Never should have been allowed in the first place! Bend needs to develop a site with bathrooms, showers and rules,like NO drugs and NO trash. At least Redmond is trying to help these people. Take a. Lesson from them. Get off the dime and solve the problem

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Cheri Trettin
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Cheri Trettin

I say move the campers off forest land and onto main street if you want public funding for homelessness in Bend to become an immediate priority!!!

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Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

Yes and build more homeless shelters or provide jobs for them

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Tylor Meyer
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Tylor Meyer

They have had excessive amount of time to move off land they are not even allowed to live on!

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Just a voice Figg
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Just a voice Figg

They have had ample time to move. Vegetation reduction helps slow and or stop wildfires that will eventually hit that area and destroy millions of dollars worth of homes and people's lives.

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Jeff Sanders
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Jeff Sanders

Living in SE Bend I really enjoyed going to China Hat with my Jeep to off road and walk with my dogs. The thought of being shot has kept me from doing that for a while now. Good riddance to the homeless and make it where they can't come back.

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Joe Dillon
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Joe Dillon

it is public land, NOT someones home! The public cannot use it without fear of saftey. We DONT need another human caused fire that happens EVERY year out there, we have enough to worry about with mother nature fires. Time to move on!

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Linda Knowlton
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Linda Knowlton

Fire danger and trash in the forest

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jennifer stenkamp
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jennifer stenkamp

Being homeless is usually the result of bad choices. My taxes help pay for government land. Living there rent free and creating tons of garbage, being a true threat to causing wildfires, behaving in a lawless manner angers too many of us who manage to pay for real housing. Move them out now.

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Erin E Yates
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Erin E Yates

We all have problems in life why do they think it is ok to do what they are doing, when the rest of us pay our taxes, go to work, get counseling if we have problems. The amount they spend on drugs, they could pay rent. It’s a choice and their choice is to do drugs and not work. DEATH and TAXES!!!

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Goth Gaga
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Goth Gaga

This homeless problem is a choice. These people are drug addicts that need to get clean and go back to work. They should be put into rehab while being counseled for their personal problems. Once clean they should be put to work doing tasks that prisoners do. If they refuse, then jail them.

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Ron Rommel
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Ron Rommel

The Homeless Campers are the wrong people on the wrong landscape due to their lack of cognitive awareness of fire. I and many others are willing to share grace for their position in life when they are willing to improve their situation through counseling, accepting shelter to transition life.

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NO

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Diana Cockerill
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Diana Cockerill

They are humans and have no other options.We try not to let that happen to unwanted pets, yet have no problem in letting it happen to, what many consider, unwanted people!

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