Eastern Lane County Catastrophic Wildfires, Toxic Smoke & Opportunity
By: Bob Zybach
Date: May 5, 2026 presentation to the Cottage Grove, Oregon 912 Project
Source: https://www.youtube.com/@ORWWmedia
"Eastern Lane County Catastrophic Wildfires, Toxic Smoke & Opportunity" is a 59-minute presentation by Dr. Bob Zybach to the Cottage Grove 912 Project on May 5, 2026. The presentation was videotaped by Jim Lockhart for ORWW educational purposes and edited by Lockhart and Zybach to accurately document the images and discussion. There are a few sound volume problems during the first 3 minutes of the tape and some brief recording glitches at points near the end, but all words and phrases are clearly intelligible, and distractions are hopefully minimal.
00:00 Introduction
00:49 2024 National Wildfire Institute (NWI-NWA) Presentation
01:18 1933 Tillamook Fire
02:08 1950-2022 Elliott State Forest Timber Sales Graph
03:18 1995 Earth First! Warner Creek protest barrier
05:54 1996 Eugene Warner Creek hunger strike
06:47 1911-2022 Oregon Department of Forestry wildfire acreage graph
08:55 2020-2025 East Lane County major wildfire acres & costs
11:43 2020 Oregon Labor Day Fires map
12:53 2020 Blue River & Detroit photos after fires
13:26 2020 Blue River video w/ Swampgrass song, "Afraid of the Night"
19:10 2022 KEZI Melanie Stanley quotes re: Blue River home reconstruction
19:40 2026 April 10 Facebook post re: Blue River home reconstruction
20:18 2020 Oregon Natural Resource Industries (ONRI), Tasha Webb & Red Cross aid
21:30 1910 Wendling Fire destruction took 90 days to rebuild with private resources
21:52 1962 Columbus Day Storm took 72 hours to plan timber salvage
22:25 2020-2023 East Lane County major wildfires map
22:42 2020 Detroit powerline before-and-after wildfire photos
23:05 1987-2017 Kalmiopsis Wilderness "repeat fires" map
24:12 2022 Cedar Creek Fire "soil burn severity" map & wildfire management
26:33 1996-2022 Charlton Reburn photos & videos re: "Roadless & Wilderness"
30:21 2020 "Wildlife habitat" & wildfire mortality: yearling, doe & buck
31:00 2018-2025 Blair Lake Campground; Rob DeHarpport re: early 1950s history
34:24 2026 Fall Creek Reservoir & Big Fall Creek dangerous "large woody debris"
36:16 2022-2024 Lane County wildfire smoke pollution & human mortality studies
39:37 2022 Oakridge & Eugene "Very Unhealthy" & "Hazardous" PM2.5 smoke
40:25 2022 Cedar Creek Fire mismanagement & costs
41:20 1902 Yacolt Burn; Speelyai Prairie & wildlife story
42:03 2026 Inmate wildfire crew discussion May 14 CORRECTION: 75th Anniversary for the Tillamook inmate crew is current news
42:30 2024 Lane-1 Fire patterns (video) in strips of set fires?
43:30 1987 Shady Beach Fire reforestation & 1991 Warner Creek Fire 2022 reburn
44:12 2009 Tumblebug Reburn & August 29, 2025 Emigrant Fire
45:44 Reforestation Planning: 5 Steps
45:46 Subbasin-scale road & trail access: cultural resources, active management
46:26 Site prep & weed control
46:54 Species planting & seeding patterns
46:58 Seedling maintenance & replacement
47:08 Plant (fuel) management
47:20 2025 Cedar Creek Fire cost of wasted & costly old-growth resources
48:22 2010 Tim Bailey and 1850s Molalla ponderosa pine "medicine tree"
49:59 2009 Nana Lapham with old-growth sugar pine & invasive 2nd growth
51:20 2011 John Thomas & Tim Bailey with old-growth pine & fir
51:32 2020 Labor Day Fire ridgeline burn pattern
52:19 2025 Russ Sapp & Dave Sullivan in Alsea Valley Douglas fir plantation
53:03 2025 Crevice Creek plantation burned in 2022 Cedar Creek Fire
54:02 2009 Don Day & Wayne Giesy at Gordon Meadows during camas bloom
57:14 Summary: opportunities and obligations
58:00 Closing credits
