In Oregon, the National Forest Service is preparing to do some forest maintenance in the Deschutes National Forest. That’s all to the good; clearing brush and doing controlled burns, as is the plan for this project, is a vital part of forest maintenance and helps prevent out-of-control wildfires.
What’s baffling about this is that it’s necessary to clean out a massive, trash-strewn homeless encampment before the work can begin.
Dozens of homeless people who have been living in a national forest in central Oregon for years were being evicted Thursday by the U.S. Forest Service, as it closed the area for a wildfire prevention project that will involve removing smaller trees, clearing debris and setting controlled burns over thousands of acres.
The project has been on the books for years, and the decision to remove the encampment in the Deschutes National Forest…
