Local officials will spend the next year developing a community response plan for smoke events in Wasco and Hood River counties.  The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has provided a grant for the work.  Lauren Kraemer of Oregon State University Extension is leading the project, and she says while the counties have wildfire response plans, this will look toward communicating smoke information to vulnerable groups.  Kraemer noted they also received grant funds to purchase and locate ten new air quality monitors in the Gorge, which they hope to tie into local emergency notification systems.