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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green">Welcome to this roundup of the Land Use News!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Land Use News is an electronic news clipping service provided by the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD). Land Use News emphasizes local
reporting, agency announcements and commentary on land use in Oregon and other states. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.thechronicleonline.com/news_paid/latest-town-hall-discusses-scope-of-housing-crisis/article_db189256-1aa5-11e9-9993-a79adb1e134d.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTUzMTgzNDM1ODA1MDgyMTIzMzIyGjFlNTVhYjMzZWU3YjM2ZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEIDjdZKZCtCouebsb8PCHRYfPE-Q"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Latest
town hall discusses scope of housing crisis </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">St. Helens Chronicle
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Fueling the crisis, according to the summary, is a long term drop in ratio between incomes and housing costs. Oregon’s high in-migration
intensifies these trends. As applied, Oregon land use laws, particularly in rural areas, add costs that help make housing unaffordable and, in the meantime, federal disinvestment in traditional housing supports further burden housing affordability. “Without
a change in direction, the county housing crisis will only worsen over time,” Brown said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/downtown-prepares-for-next-round-of-remodels-projects/article_0c260689-6b8b-5384-a853-03b91e071ad4.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTUzMTgzNDM1ODA1MDgyMTEzMTIyGjJmNzcwMGUyMDliYjk2MGI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNF9DbLayH3_pHjaw4RZVSHotgk77g"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Downtown
prepares for next round of remodels, projects </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Herald and News
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">In 2017, downtown Klamath Falls grant programs
<a href="https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/local_news/elevating-downtown/article_a2a259b7-f51d-50d2-80de-5b6db4933948.html" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">helped</span></a> make new upstairs apartments for medical students a
<a href="https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/focusing-on-stable-student-housing/article_a64014b5-bd5d-5e35-86be-06869d074a8d.html" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">reality</span></a>. Once again, the Klamath Falls Downtown Association (KFDA) is getting ready for another round of applications. This time they’ll have at least $145,000 to distribute toward front-end building
redesigns, clean-ups and additional upstairs housing plans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-portland-opportunity-zones/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTUzMTgzNDM1ODA1MDgyMTIzMzIyGjFlNTVhYjMzZWU3YjM2ZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFtdrQLAGMONy6baEWCQKjmFcv_Cw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Welcome
to Tax Breaklandia </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Bloomberg
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Portland is about to see a flurry of construction because of a provision in the 2017 tax overhaul that led to the creation of more than
8,700 “opportunity zones” across the country—areas that, in theory, have been ignored by investors and need generous tax breaks to catch up. But Oregon did an audacious thing: It selected the entire downtown of its largest city to be eligible for the law’s
suite of benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/washington-may-rope-ranchers-fight-rural-wildfires-oregon-and-idaho-already-do&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTUzMTgzNDM1ODA1MDgyMTA2MzIyGjNmNmNhYzI4YjA0ZjBlYzY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEEW-Y0NP5MIhWoUbt4L9U6z5wCzg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Washington
may rope in ranchers to fight rural wildfires — as Oregon and Idaho already do </span>
</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">NW News Network
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Ranchers in remote corners of the West have formed all-volunteer crews and gotten permission to fight range fires when professional firefighters
are far away. These "neighbors-helping-neighbors" provide initial attack — and consequently don't suffer the helpless feeling of having to stand by while valuable forage for grazing burns. When the authorities arrive to take over the locals can continue to
help out, but they would not be in command of the fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://bikeportland.org/2019/01/17/state-of-oregon-finalizes-funding-list-for-safe-routes-to-school-projects-294258&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTUzMTgzNDM1ODA1MDgyMTE5MzUyGmUwNWU1Zjc3NWRhNTQxY2M6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNGsLfvNRc-r4gsrSx6cWSYPIfTTBw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">State
of Oregon finalizes funding list for Safe Routes to School projects </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">BikePortland.org
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Region 1 (which covers all of Portland) will receive $3.39 million for four projects that will make it easier and safer for kids to walk
and bike to class. ODOT awarded nearly $16 million for 24 projects statewide. Demand for these funds far outstripped supply as the agency received a total of 112 project applications requesting a total of $85 million.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.capitalpress.com/state/oregon/state-board-passes-rules-for-oregon-agricultural-heritage-program/article_3036fb84-1906-11e9-9be1-afb650b8cdce.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTU1NzM4NDQ0MjIyMzU3NzQwMTUyGjFlNTVhYjMzZWU3YjM2ZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNEU2YSnOb7XyRVWoP5EJebGvtSRhw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">State
board passes rules for Oregon Agricultural Heritage Program </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Capital Press
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board has approved new administrative rules for a voluntary state grant program to protect and preserve
working farms and ranches. Established by lawmakers in 2017, the Oregon Agricultural Heritage Program was conceived to address the increasing fragmentation and conversion of farmland — an issue that simultaneously threatens natural resources such as fish and
wildlife habitat supported by agriculture, officials say.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.wweek.com/news/state/2019/01/16/democrats-are-confident-they-will-pass-the-nations-first-statewide-rent-controls-and-a-ban-on-no-cause-evictions/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTU1NzM4NDQ0MjIyMzU3NzIzNTUyGjJmNzcwMGUyMDliYjk2MGI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFBvNSn5bOKNtL21xxZuS9PkteNsg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Everything
You Need to Know About a Rent Control Bill That Oregon's Power Brokers in Salem ...
</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Willamette Week
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Senate Bill 608, which would limit rent increases and bar no-cause evictions after a tenant's first year in a building, has powerful sponsorship
from House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland) and Senate Majority Leader Ginny Burdick (D-Portland). On Jan. 14, the bill received the endorsement of Gov. Kate Brown.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.klcc.org/post/hundreds-rally-outside-final-pipeline-hearing&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzA5Mjk5NTU1NTcwNDQ3MzM1MjIaNzBjYzY0NjhiNGVjMGVjMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFsys_RGdVoBHl5cvKVkxCDEvWF-Q"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Hundreds
Rally Outside Final Pipeline Hearing </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">KLCC FM Public Radio
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Some people showed up in support of the project. They said it would provide well-paying jobs in a part of the state that has often lagged
behind economically. Josh Zimmer of Silverton said fellow members of the plumbers union he's a part of could benefit from the pipeline and terminal. "I don't know that I would be working on that project, per se. But I know that a lot of brothers and sisters
from our local and other locals, it would give them good employment," said Zimmer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.utilitydive.com/news/oregon-10-year-plan-aims-to-reduce-energy-burden-improve-efficiency/545988/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzA5Mjk5NTU1NTcwNDQ3NTQwMzIaNzUyYWMzN2ZlMTM5M2JkZTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF4lWmHXNXdgY26GCul7HCxmWcchg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Oregon</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
10-year plan aims to reduce energy burden, improve efficiency </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Utility Dive
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Oregon will turn to energy efficiency to address the disparity in energy burden and affordability for low-income residents, but officials
say efficiency alone will not be enough — the task will require collaboration among multiple agencies, funding streams and stakeholders. The state's 10-year plan was
<a href="https://energyinfo.oregon.gov/blog/2019/1/7/new-state-plan-outlines-steps-for-reducing-energy-burden-improving-energy-efficiency" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">announced last week</span></a> by the Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS), the Oregon Department of Energy and the Oregon Public Utility Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ktvz.com/news/central-oregon-transit-service-looks-to-future/977195672&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzA5Mjk5NTU1NTcwNDQ3NTQwNTIaN2QxMTZkOWMxYTYyMTAyMTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHgSHdhPeCDf6US5r5VGboN-TAjfg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Central
Oregon transit service looks to future </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">KTVZ
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Cascades East Transit is kicking off a series of six open houses to find out what Central Oregonians want to see in the future of transportation.
Andrea Breault is a senior transit planner for CET. She said Tuesday public houses are incredibly helpful when it comes to development. “I would say public input is probably the most important, because those are the folks we want to take the service. And so
hearing where their needs are is obviously essential to the entire plan,” Breault said. The new master plan looks ahead to 2040 and would go into effect in 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.tribtown.com/2019/01/17/us-government-shutdown-wildfires/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTMzA5Mjk5NTU1NTcwNDQ3NTQ2NzIaZmFlNzY5MzkxYmE4MjFmOTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNGtTnVtl45gUDL2JE_XRySJb0nWGw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Government
shutdown taking toll on wildfire preparations </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Seymour Tribune
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">PORTLAND, Ore. — Just two months after a wildfire wiped out Paradise, California, officials are gearing up for this year’s fire season
and fear the government shutdown could make it even more difficult than one of the worst in history. The winter months are critical for wildfire managers who use the break from the flames to prepare for the next onslaught, but much of that effort has ground
to a halt on U.S. land because employees are furloughed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">From aviation contracts to deals with vendors and even seasonal hiring, the partial federal government shutdown is cutting into planning
and preparation for the 2019 wildfire season in the Northwest. According to Washington Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz, one training for firefighting managers has already been canceled, because the federal government has been partially shuttered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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trade group director jumps on the 'solar coaster'</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Oregon's solar trade group has a new leader, and she's got a lot on her plate. OSEIA says residential solar installations took a hit when
an Oregon tax credit expired last year. Reviving a state incentive for residential installations is a key priority in 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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effectively ban </span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">solar</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#427FED;text-decoration:none"> farms, but first a bunch of new ones ...</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">The Marion County Commissioners decided in March 2018 to stop taking applications for solar farms. After a contentious commission meeting
where dozens of people on both sides of the issue expressed complaints, the commission placed what was termed a moratorium on future solar farms. “We’ve taken the position that no more solar fields, no more solar things come to Marion County in EFU land,”
Cameron said. In April 2018, Yamhill County opted to no longer allow solar farms, a move Polk County had previously taken.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">“It would be setting a dangerous precedent if Klamath County approved this exception because it would allow others in Klamath County to
pursue projects on high-value farm land,” Miller said. “It’s not renewable, it’s precious, and once it’s taken out of use it’s gone.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">The Mitchells are among the hundreds of thousands of families in rural America whose homes and prospective homes are being threatened
by the closure of the USDA. The agency's rural affordable housing programs have a low profile inside the USDA even when the government is fully operational. Now they have fallen by the wayside as a skeletal staff has struggled to keep the USDA’s core initiatives
afloat since the partial government shutdown began.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">In time, though, as more homesteads were carved out of the forest and more roads and driveways wound toward them, it became clear to conservationists
that the spread amounted to something like rural sprawl. The distance—if not distant enough—actually multiplied the effects of each structure. Ecologists found that spreading out instead of clustering and preserving connected open spaces discouraged wildlife
migrations and evicted species that need a buffer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/01/affordable-housing-microsoft-pledges-500m-to-tackle-seattle-crisis.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTUzMTgzNDM1ODA1MDgyMTEzMTIyGjJmNzcwMGUyMDliYjk2MGI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFc-iNvLNz0sWMjeBTYZ0zqHD8W1g"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Affordable
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">"A healthy business needs to be part of a healthy community," Microsoft President Brad Smith and Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood wrote
in a blog post announcing the financial commitment. "And a healthy community must have housing within the economic reach of every part of the community, including the many dedicated people who provide the vital services on which we all rely."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.insidescience.org/news/smoke-wildfires-may-increase-violent-crime-and-asthma-attacks&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMzA5Mjk5NTU1NTcwNDQ3NTQ2NzIaZmFlNzY5MzkxYmE4MjFmOTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF_ZCcENgSTKX35Pg2IfbiSvm00Mw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Smoke
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">In three of the four case studies, people went to the hospital for asthma significantly more often on days when wildfire smoke was present.
In Oregon, the researchers also had data on inhaler refills, and they saw that people filled inhaler prescriptions more often on smoky days. In their country-wide analysis, the researchers found that admissions to intensive care units were significantly higher
over the five days following an increase in smoke levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">People across the U.S. also tended to commit more violent crimes (including domestic violence) when there was wildlife smoke in their
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