Wednesday, September 20, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
USFS spends record $2B on fires
Outlaws fall in tight
soccer match
By Rongi Yost
Correspondent
The boys soccer team
battled hard at Cottage Grove
(CG) on Thursday, September
14, in their league opener
against the Lions, but with
less than two minutes left in
the contest, the Lions got one
past the Outlaws and tallied a
3-2 win.
Cottage Grove struck first
at the 18-minute mark to
take a 1-0 lead, but Sisters
answered five minutes later.
Gabe Patton was tackled in
the penalty box and Colby
Simeral converted the PK
into the upper-right corner,
with a shot that didn’t give
the Lions’ keeper a chance to
get the save.
The Lions regained the
lead with 10 minutes left in
the half on a hard foul by
Willie Stewart in the penalty.
CG converted the PK and
went into the half with a 2-1
advantage.
The contest continued
back and forth, and the
Outlaws finally got the neu-
tralizing shot in the 58th min-
ute when Simeral was fouled
hard in the penalty. Colby
converted the PK once again,
this time to the left side, past
the outstretched hands of the
keeper.
Simeral told The Nugget
that after he converted his
second PK, the Outlaws were
fired up.
“The energy was flow-
ing, and everyone was con-
necting,” said Simeral. “Our
energy was high, the bench
was thrilled, we were all
exhilarated, and we had the
By Mathew Daly
Associated Press
momentum.”
It was a battle to the very
end, and both teams gave it
all they had. With just under
two minutes left in the game,
the Lions were able to slot a
bouncing ball to the left side.
Keaton Green and Samson
Henneous both made a play
on it, but the Lions’ player
was able to volley the ball
between them into the net.
“League play was defi-
nitely apparent,” said Coach
Rob Jensen. “Samson played
his career-best game and
minded the net fabulously
for us. I saw the team come
together and play their best
game of the season. They are
getting better at a rapid rate,
and next week should show
these results.”
Two days earlier, the
Outlaws wrapped up pre-sea-
son with a 5-0 loss at Henley.
Jensen said, “I felt we
played an even game, how-
ever they were able to get
forward in the attack a little
more than us. The result
showed our defense had
many mental errors.”
Sisters was to play at home
against Sutherlin on Tuesday,
September 19. The Outlaws
will travel to Sweet Home on
Thursday, September 21.
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WASHINGTON (AP)
— The U.S. Forest Service
has spent more than $2 bil-
lion battling forest fires that
are blackening the American
West. That’s a new record for
the agency and marks the first
time wildfire spending by the
Forest Service has topped $2
billion.
Wildfires have ravaged
the West this summer with 64
large fires burning across 10
states as of Thursday, includ-
ing 21 fires in Montana and
18 in Oregon. In all, 48,607
wildfires have burned nearly
13,000 square miles (33,586
square kilometers) in one
of the nation’s worst fire
seasons.
Agriculture Secretary
Sonny Perdue said the severe
fire season means officials
“end up having to hoard all
of the money that is intended
for fire prevention, because
we’re afraid we’re going
to need it to actually fight
fires.”
More aggressive approach to prevention?
By Mathew Daly
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke
on Tuesday, September 12,
directed all land managers
and park superintendents to
be more aggressive in cutting
down small trees and under-
brush to prevent wildfires as
the smoke-choked West faces
one of the worst fire seasons
in a decade.
In a memo, Zinke said
the Trump administration
will take a new approach and
work proactively to prevent
fires “through aggressive
and scientific fuels reduction
management” to save lives,
homes and wildlife habitat.
Wildfires are chewing
across dried-out Western
forests and grassland. To
date, 47,700 wildfires have
burned more than 8 mil-
lion acres across the country,
with much of the devastation
in California, Oregon and
Montana, Zinke said.
As of Tuesday, 62 large
fires were burning across nine
Western states, with 20 fires
in Montana and 17 in Oregon,
according to the National
Interagency Fire Center.
Nearly half the large fires in
the West reported zero acre-
age gains on Monday, helping
firefighters across the West
make progress toward con-
taining them, the agency said.
The Forest Service and
Interior Department have
spent more $2.1 billion so
far this year fighting fires
— about the same as in all
of 2015, the most expensive
wildfire season on record.
Those figures do not
include individual state
spending. In Montana, where
more than 90 percent of the
state is in drought, the state
has spent more than $50 mil-
lion on fire suppression since
June, with fires likely to burn
well into the fall.
Oregon has spent $28 mil-
lion, but expects to be reim-
bursed for part of that by
the federal government and
others.
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