Date: 07/14/2014 09:24 AM
AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/262
Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) – Officials say a fast-growing wildfire in Klamath County has destroyed homes and forced dozens of evacuations. Fire managers say the blaze that broke out yesterday afternoon mushroomed to about 4½ square miles by 1 a.m. today. They say crews this morning are trying to determine the types and numbers of structures burned.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Experts say a fungus is infecting large black walnut trees in Salem and is likely to slowly kill them. The thousand cankers disease has infected trees at the Oregon State Hospital campus and nearby streets. Oregon Department of Agriculture plants expert Dan Hilburn tells the Salem Statesman Journal that the public is likely to notice black walnut trees declining over the next five to 10 years.
RENO, Nev. (AP) – The BLM says it will remove fewer wild horses and burros from the range across the West this summer because of budget constraints and overflowing holding pens. Under its roundup schedule announced this week, the bureau plans to gather 2,400 of the animals through Sept. 30 — 75 of them in Oregon.
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – A community group in Pendleton is considering the future of a shuttered state mental hospital. Many in the group prefer razing the former Blue Mountain Recovery Center to make way for development. Others want to convert it to a call center or use it to treat mentally ill inmates transitioning back to society. The East Oregonian reports that state lawmakers directed the community to come up with a plan for the site after funding was cut off.
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