Commentary: Whose responsibility is eastern Oregon flooding?

Commentary: Whose responsibility is eastern Oregon flooding?

Possibly no place in Oregon has a more rugged, individualistic, even anti-governmental attitude than Burns, a small city in the middle of the state’s southeast desert country.

Whose responsibility is eastern Oregon flooding?

An aerial image taken on Sunday, March 30, 2025, documents flooding impacts to the Burns Paiute Reservation. (Photo courtesy of the Tribe’s Natural Resources Department and Trey Wall.)Possibly no place in Oregon has a more rugged, individualistic, even anti-governmental attitude than Burns, a small city in the middle of the state’s southeast desert country.  This is an area of old-style ranchers and resource industries, or at least has been. It …