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Wings on the River: How does smoke affect birds?
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Wings on the River: How does smoke affect birds?

  • By Flora Martin Gibson
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In 2020, I watched swallows curling in low flight, as they do before a rainstorm. The air was stagnant, dry, smoke-brown; the sun a pale yellow disk. Wildfires were burning almost 21,000 acres in the United States, mostly in Oregon, Washington and California.

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DNR planning prescribed burn in Klickitat Co.

  • The Washington State Department of Natural Resources
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GLENWOOD — A prescribed fire operation to reduce wildfire risk and restore forest health near Glenwood may begin as soon as Monday, May 5.