"Killing Fields: Field Burning'S Deadly Legacy" [1]
The 1988 highway death of a family in Oregon, blinded by smoke from fields being burned for weed control, was a story so moving that it spawned a novel. Field burning is so common in Oregon that it threatens people's lungs and health. A legislative struggle to ban it remains unresolved.
Camilla Mortensen reports for the Eugene Weekly June 18, 2009. [2]
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Source: Eugene Weekly [2], 06/19/2009