From Rockaway Beach Fire & Rescue 11/10/26: CONTROLLED BURN NOTICE- As you may have noticed, there is currently a large burn east of Rockaway. This is a prescribed slash burn under controlled conditions and is no cause for alarm.
photographer: Marilyn K. Elkins
There are alternative methods to slash burning. Smoke from burning vegetation and organic materials contains toxic gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, and particulate matter that is small enough to enter the lungs and affect the respiratory system. Carbon released from slash burns contributes to global climate change.
Slash burns can ignite wildfires. Slash burns caused the Hug Point Complex fire in 2014 and multiple fires in Clatsop County in 2022.
These burns are within 100 feet of fish-bearing streams and wetlands.
Contact the timber company, Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF), and your local officials to ask them to use safer, healthier methods in managing slash:
Notifier/ Operator for Nuveen Natural Capital: Fridtjof Kristian Fremstad 503-741-1214
Tillamook Office of Oregon Department of Forestry: 503-842-2545
ODF Forester: Mark Main, mark.r.main@oregon.gov
Tillamook County Environmental Health: Jaime Craig at jaime.craig@tillamookcounty.gov
Keep up-to-date on logging, pesticide spraying, and slash burning and leave comments by signing up for notifications at the ODF’s FERNS portal at https://ferns.odf.oregon.gov/e-notification.
November 9, 2026 in Clatsop County and Rockaway Beach:
This notification is from North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection.
NCCWP wants no more logging and pesticide use in community water sources and an end to pesticide applications near where people live, work, and recreate. rockawaycitizen.water@gmail.com | www.healthywatershed.org
