Idaho would start a new field-burning regulation program that makes public health a priority, ends the state’s practice of keeping field-burn locations a secret and cuts off burning when pollution rises, under legislation introduced this morning. The new system is part of an agreement to allow field-burning to resume in Idaho; it’s been banned for the past year due to a federal court decision/Betsy Russell, SR Eye On Boise. More here

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Question: Which of the following choices reflects your feeling about field burning? It needs to be reigned in? Do away with it altogether? It was fine before the moratorium was imposed last year?

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