Killing Fields: Field Burning's Deadly Legacy

Brizz Meddings/WELC
Eugene Weekly | June 18, 2009
The fiery death in 1988 of novelist William Wharton's daughter, her husband and baby girls is probably the grimmest reminder of the dangers of field burning smoke. Today the fight to ban the burn continues in Oregon.

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