DEQ Grant To Support Development Of Community Smoke Plan

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has approved an $80,000 grant to support the development of a community response plans in Wasco County for communicating about smoke from prescribed fire, agricultural burning, home woodstove and pile burning, wildfire, and other smoke sources.  OSU Extension will be the lead local agency to develop the plans.  Extension’s Lauren Kraemer says they also have received a $10,000 grant from the OHSU Knight Cancer Foundation to purchase ten air quality monitors to install at orchards in Wasco and Hood River counties, with a hope they will be hooked into the County’s emergency communication systems.  Because the funds must be received by a county government, the Wasco County Commission approved an intergovernmental agreement for the project with OSU Extension.

Adblock Detected

We have detected that you are using an adblock in your browser’s plugin to disable advertising from loading on our website.

Your Experience is very important to us, and your Ad Blocker enabled will cause our site not to perform as expected.  Turn off the Ad Blocker or add our site to your exceptions.  After you turn off or add exception please refresh the site or click ok.

Please note: Clicking OK below will NOT disable your ad blocker. You will need to make that change within the ad blocker's settings.

OK