FILE- The Durkee fire in Eastern Oregon ... an amount state agencies were in no shape to pay. A map of active wildfires across Oregon at the National Weather Service building in Portland, Ore.

Oregon lawmakers approved $218 million in emergency wildfire funds during a Thursday special session that was convened to ...

In October, the nonprofit Friends of the Owyhee partnered with the Vale Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Reclamation to plant 1250 sagebrush within the River Fire burn scar along the Owyhee ...

FILE - This photo provided by the Oregon Department of Transportation shows the Durkee Fire burning in eastern Ore., July 22, 2024. (Oregon Department of Transportation via AP, File) SALEM ...

FILE - This photo provided by the Oregon Department of Transportation shows the Durkee Fire burning in eastern Ore., July 22, 2024. (Oregon Department of Transportation via AP, File) SALEM ...

FILE - This photo provided by the Oregon Department of Transportation shows the Durkee Fire burning in eastern Ore., July 22, 2024. (Oregon Department of Transportation via AP, File) SALEM, Ore. (AP) ...

In this image provided by the Oregon Department of Transportation, the Durkee fire burns in the background as it nears Interstate 84 near Huntington, Ore., early Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Oregon ...

At one point, the Durkee Fire, which scorched roughly 460 square miles (1,200 square kilometers) near the Oregon-Idaho border, was the largest in the nation. Kotek declared a state of emergency in ...