Almost immediately after the state released its wildfire map, people in rural areas of Oregon began to criticize it. Looking back, Golden said he sees three roots of that backlash. 1 ...

Nobody could,” said Oregon Sen. Jeff Golden, D-Ashland, the sponsor of the 2022 map legislation. “The OSU guys came down and walked properties with me and they couldn’t either.” ...

The high-resolution Priority Wildlife Connectivity Areas map also represents a new innovation in connectivity mapping; an area in which other states might follow Oregon's lead.