Oregon
Oregon’s Merkley and Wyden push for federal resources to fight wildfires
As wildfires burn nearly 1 million acres across Oregon, U.S Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden have sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of the Interior requesting additional federal assistance.
In the letter addressed to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the senators acknowledge that rapidly growing fires such as the Durkee fire, the nation’s largest, have stretched resources thin.