As the Oregon fire season trends longer and fires burn larger, those who work with Oregon’s rural forest protective ...

“When I first started, a two or three thousand acre fire was a big fire,” McCarty told the Daily Yonder. “One of the fires that my instant management team was on this year was 180,000 acres.

The U.S. flag flies on a ranch near Willowcreek as a wildfire burns across rangeland in Malheur County on Saturday, July 20.

Big box stores bring numerous economic benefits to small towns but also introduce significant firefighting challenges.