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Wyden, Merkley urge feds to fund Columbia River Gorge fire recovery

  • Alex Baumhardt

Oregon’s U.S. senators are urging their peers on a powerful budgeting committee to send emergency funding to Oregon and other states where national lands and parks were recently burned by wildfires. More than a million acres of federal land burned across the West this summer, including thousands of acres of the Columbia River Gorge National […]

Ashes to Art: How Lloyd DeKay compromises with fire
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Ashes to Art: How Lloyd DeKay compromises with fire

  • By Sean Avery Columbia George News
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WHITE SALMON — Fire is a familiar foe in the Columbia River Gorge — a devastating, uncompromising force that threatens homes, families and wildlife year in and year out. But for Lloyd DeKay, retired geologist turned wood bowl turning extraordinaire, it presents a unique and affecting artistic opportunity: to find beauty amidst the rubble.