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No protection for no man’s land
There are 156,000 acres
of land in Umatilla County
Zith no of¿ cial ¿ re Srotec
tion This land is Sredomi
nantly in three areas of the
county ² north of 3endle
ton, east of Hermiston and
south of Pilot Rock — and
is known as “no man’s land”
amonJ county ¿ re of¿ cials
These areas are unSro
tected because those land
owners do not Say ta[es
for ¿ re coYeraJe )ires that
start in those areas haYe the
Sotential to become larJe
¿ res, like the recent ¿ re in
Gilliam County, that would
threaten land and homes
owned by citizens within a
¿ re Srotected area $s a re
sult, time and resources are
often e[Sended outside dis
trict boundaries to SreYent
small ¿ res from JettinJ out
of control.
:here Sossible, district
¿ re crews will SreserYe re
sources by allowinJ a ¿ re
in no man’s land to burn
toward a boundary line and
then take action.
Most often, land owners
are the ¿ rst resSonders to
¿ res on their land and do
their best with tractors and
eTuiSment, but accordinJ
to 6cott 6tanton, ¿ re chief
of the Umatilla County )ire
District, their efforts are just
not enough.
Stanton wants to see the
county, landowners and area
¿ re chiefs sit down and ¿ nd
solutions to the no man’s
land issue and the Srob
lems unSrotected land Sose.
Stanton has at least three
Sossible ways to address no
man’s land.
2ne idea is to haYe cur
rent ¿ re districts adjacent
to the lands anne[ the un
Srotected area. /andowners
would haYe to ¿ le the re
Tuest and then Yoters would
haYe to aSSroYe the anne[
ation.
$nother solution is to
create a new ¿ re district.
The Srocess is similar to an
ne[ation and reTuires a Yote.
$ third Sossibility would
be to form a rangeland
Umatilla County areas
lacking fire protection
Area in detail
Ore.
No official fire district
r
Staff Writer
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Col u m b i a
Umatilla
730
84
Hermiston
Stanfield
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Wash.
Wash.
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ive
By ALEXA LOUGEE
Milton- Ore.
Freewater
11
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Echo
Athena
Umat
Pendleton
illa R
iver
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84
207
Pilot Rock
UMATILLA
82
74
La Grande
MORROW
244
395
UNION
84
Ukiah
Source:
Umatilla County
Alan Kenaga/
EO Media Group
10 miles
¿ re Srotection associa
tion through the state. In a
¿ re Srotection association,
landowners agree to serYe
as Yolunteer wildland ¿ re
¿ ghters in case a ¿ re starts
on their lands. There is no
¿ re station, no Said ¿ re crew
and no ta[ district.
Through forming an as
sociation, landowners haYe
access to grant funds and
steeSly discounted ¿ re¿ ght
ing eTuiSment from other
goYernment agencies or the
military.
MarYin 9etter is the
rangeland ¿ re Srotection
coordinator with the 2re
gon DeSartment of )orestry.
He assists interested Sarties
in the Srocess of forming a
rangeland association, as
well as SroYiding training
and helSing associations get
eTuiSment. 9etter refers to
the associations as Yolunteer
wildland ¿ re deSartments.
HoweYer, the associations
are not trained to tackle
structure ¿ res.
/egislation Sassed this
sSring in 2regon now al
lows for counties to form as
sociations under local emer
gency management and
SroYide training and eTuiS
ment to the association. But
9etter said the legislation
only aSSlies to counties with
00,000 Slus acres of unSro
tected rangeland.
In addition to the 156,000
acres in Umatilla County
with no Srotection, an area
near Milton)reewater has
106,600 acres under Yolun
tary contracted coYerage. It
is not a ta[funded deSart
ment or district, but a Sri
Yate serYice SeoSle in the
area haYe to Say for to re
ceiYe coYerage. It is unclear
whether that area would
Tualify for rangeland asso
ciation Srotection.
The 2regon State )ire
Marshal’s website also sug
gests creating ¿ re Srotection
through forming a domestic
water suSSly district, county
serYice district or a goYern
mental industry ¿ re brigade.
Cliff Bracher has SroS
erty located in no man’s
land. $ Sortion of Bracher
)arms is Srotected by the
Heli[ Rural )ire Protection
District.
With the formation of
Umatilla County )ire Dis
trict 1, additional SroSerty
owned by Bracher, includ
ing his family home, was in
corSorated into the district’s
serYice area.
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