After the recent 460-acre McCaffery fire at the Oregon National Guard Biak Training Center on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in central Oregon that left parts of the landscape bare, six employees of the Oregon Military Department (OMD), along with four volunteers from the BLM and 25 cadet volunteers from the Oregon Youth Challenge Program (OYCP) set to work in restoration efforts on the morning of Oct. 11, 2024.
