official website of the Coos Forest Protective Association
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coosfpa.net official website of the Coos Forest Protective Association |
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The Coos Forest Protective Association is a private, non-profit corporation in the business of providing protection from fires to its corporate members. Under an agreement with the Oregon State Forester, the Association also provides protection to other private, state, county and federal lands. Prior to 1910, wildfires were claiming a substantial amount of commercial timberland and driving a wedge into the area’s primary source of the economy. Interested timber owners organized and formed the Coos County Fire Patrol, which would be dedicated to protecting the area’s most valuable resource. Through the years the patrol evolved and eventually became known as the Coos Forest Protective Association. This name has stuck since 1948. |
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