We had great mixing heights. We had great pressure gradients. We had great wind direction - and so we burned a lot of acres. Unfortunately, it failed us at the critical moment.

We weren't getting any phone calls. The smoke was going up and out over the Cascades at a very high altitude. That continued to about 4:30 - and then started to go south, literally.

We weren't getting any phone calls, ... The smoke was going up and out over the Cascades at a very high altitude. That continued to about 4:30 - and then started to go south, literally.

Are the people who are getting tax credits still burning their fields? ... There's nothing in statute that says they couldn't.

We sparked a new industry. Straw all of a sudden became a valuable commodity.

There are many more growers in the valley who grow grass seed but do not burn.