July 4, 2023 6:00 a.m.

Due to high winds, low relative humidity and high temperatures, the fire danger on lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry Western Lane and South Cascades Districts has increased to High as of Tuesday.

This affects approximately 1.9 million acres of state, private, county and Bureau of Land Management lanes in Lane, Linn and portions of Douglas County.

This impacts the public use of power-driven equipment, such as chain saws, mowers, weed eaters and more. The use of power-drive equipment, grinding, cutting of metal, and other spark-emitting equipment, such as wood splitters and generators, is now prohibited between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. This does not apply to the mowing of green lawns.

A full list of restrictions is linked: https://www.oregon.gov/odf/fire/pages/restrictions.aspx