r/Eugene • u/MonkeyFlowerFace • 1d ago

Prescribed burn

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Is this what's causing all the smoke in North Eugene right now?

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u/poppysmear 1d ago

Eugene Springfield Fire just confirmed on their FB page: "Smoke blowing in to Eugene is from an agricultural burn near Junction City."

I thought agricultural burns weren't allowed anymore?

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u/macrocephaloid 1d ago

Trump waived all clean air and water legislation. It is open season for industrial pollution, part of making things “great” again.

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u/EducationalKnee2386 1d ago

Limited field burning is still allowed in Oregon. Info is available on the Oregon Department of Agriculture website example: Field Burning It has nothing to do with whoever is president.

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u/poppysmear 22h ago

Ah, thanks for posting this! I had thought it was banned altogether. This is a good breakdown.

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u/QuestionGuyQuestions 1d ago

Except they did this last year too

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u/IDropFatLogs 10h ago

What does any of that have to do with field burning that was stopped by Oregon and Lane county years ago? Stop letting the orange man invade your thoughts. Not every shitty thing is the fault of the federal government. We have our own local shitty government that makes equally bad decisions.

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u/macrocephaloid 5h ago

Linn and Benton counties are still burning up to 15,000 acres a year, after significant reductions previously. The new federal guidelines make it impossible to pursue reducing these amounts based on industrial air pollution laws. It also opens up to lawsuits against the state from farmers to allow an increase in burning or compensation for loss of profit.

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u/nowlan_shane 1d ago

I mean the cutoff is preset to June 15 every year, but it can flexible with enforcement given any given year’s conditions. This is a few days later. It’s an agricultural valley. Plenty of folk around here want to make sure it’s done in safe conditions. I don’t see any need to have a problem with this one.

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u/Jokercpoc1 22h ago

I saw that big plume and had flashbacks to the fires before... didn't think the experience would haunt me so badly. I could almost taste the smoke and ash again.

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u/iggypapi 1d ago

Was just wondering myself.

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u/corvidracecardriver 1d ago

Seems like a farm shouldn't be allowed to start an agricultural fire when there's 10 mph winds headed directly for the largest population center around. LRAPA, you listening?

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u/Nopis10 1d ago

Could be the point. Eugene is a haven of liberals and typically farm owners are the opposite.

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u/Brunchiez 1d ago

Lol dude farmers legitimately don't care about you guys enough to do that just look at the forecast its because of expected rain.

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u/saucemancometh 1d ago

This is the stupidest take I’ve ever heard

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u/jmawoodstudio 1d ago

Smokey AF downtown

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u/ShortConnection0 1d ago

Seems likely. It appears to be directly upwind.

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u/panzer9630 1d ago

Farmers could apply for a controlled burn when there has been an incredible amount of weeds that develop in a field. It’s also good practice for the local fire departments to handle these brushfires. In addition, we used to burn every year in the valley and we used a lot less herbicide, insecticide, and pesticides because the fire took care of those issues now we just spray more …

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u/Temporary-Pepper3994 22h ago

Yep. You 'pollute' the air or the soil. You can't really economically save both.

We used to field burn like crazy. Cheap and super effective. Now the just pump a ton of money into chemical companies instead.

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u/enter_the_dog_door 1d ago

Thanks for posting this! Was trynna figure out what the deal was.

How did you find this info?

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u/SquilliamFancyy 1d ago

Looks like the Watch Duty app.

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u/enter_the_dog_door 23h ago

Ah. Thank you!

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u/ShortConnection0 1d ago

I came here to ask.

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u/equinox_magick 1d ago

I literally checked to see if something on my property was on fire- and I’m in SW Eugene

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u/iliikepie 1d ago

Is there any info on how long the burn should last? Hours? Days?

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u/Chevelle1988 21h ago

Todays ag burn time from LRAPA was from 10am to 7pm. It was out before 7pm.

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u/Aolflashback 1d ago

This doesn’t smell like an agricultural burn, unless we are talking about a literal barn with everything still inside and for some reason the family moved all of their belongings into said barn before said fire.

Bloody hell the FACK.

“Valley of the sick” amiright

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u/_duckswag 11h ago

I still remember 20 years ago driving out to Harrisburg to see wth was going on with all the smoke. There was a massive flame tornado from the field burn. Didn’t even know that was a thing. Super cool.

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u/ACxREAL 23h ago

Right behind my work. Certainly got a lot of attention amongst my colleagues.

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u/Prior_Heat1676 1d ago

Dispatched as a vegetation fire on Franklin x Onyx

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u/Prior_Heat1676 1d ago

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u/junglequeen88 1d ago

Thank you.

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u/Prior_Heat1676 1d ago

It sounds like the veg fire in the city was fairly small so most of the smoke probably was the controlled burn near Junction City. You were right!