Sean C. Morgan
Ongoing drought and warm weather that have elevated wildfire danger this summer, with particularly severe conditions at the end of last week, have prompted public and private forest managers to shut down most of the woodlands in Linn County and ban all open fires and campgrounds.
The Willamette National Forest raised the Industrial Fire Precaution Level in the South Cascade district to a Four on Friday, July 30, considered a “general shutdown”…