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Would more logging mean fewer big wildfires?
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839 Votes

Would more logging mean fewer big wildfires?

Of course it would!

5

No-that won't help!

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Of course it would!

5 Comments
Greta Dean
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Greta Dean

It only makes sense to selectively log and remove ground debris. Just like cleaning house

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Gramma Jean
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Gramma Jean

I am old enough to remember our beautiful forests when logging was in full swing. Just like a garden, the forests need to be tended. Wasn't that one of the first jobs given man in the Garden of Eden?

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Donna Reed
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Donna Reed

Do selective logging and clean up after it.

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Sandra Kennel
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Sandra Kennel

There are too many dead and dying trees in the forests. The forests are overgrown because there has been mismanagement for decades.

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Mayme Trumble
Mayme Trumble

Who will pay to cut down dead trees?

Karen Rickard Smith
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Karen Rickard Smith

it would be much better land management then what is happening at the present time: fewer fuel for fires.

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No-that won't help!

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Kenneth Swipies
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Kenneth Swipies

Cutting down more trees will not end the drought, nor place more moisture in the air. It could make the forests drier thus creating more fires. Clearing out deadwood, creating more firebreaks, works

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Mayme Trumble
Mayme Trumble

Thank you. You at least understand what pushes fires to be so deadly.

Janet Rawlings
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Janet Rawlings

I don't think logging is the answer, that means only marketable timber. The thick small trees and underbrush are what causes the hotter fires. Thinning would be the answer.

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Mayme Trumble
Mayme Trumble

Thank you!

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

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NO

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YES

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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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