The Oregon Department of Forestry’s Forest
Grove District announced today it is lowering the Industrial Fire Precaution
Level to “I: Closed Season.” This reduces the fire safety precautions
that forest operators must follow while logging or constructing roads in the forest during wildfire season. The two
units affected by the change are NW-2 and NW-3. A map on the ODF website
entitled, “ODF Industrial Precaution Levels and Public Use
Restrictions/Closures,” depicts the two units – http://www.oregon.gov/odf/Pages/index.aspx
The two units were previously at Level II, which requires more fire prevention
steps of forest operators. The recent weather change in the district that
brought significant rainfall and cooler temperatures prompted the level change.