Timber company Weyerhaeuser is donating 38 acres in the rural Lane County community of Disston to the Row River Rural Fire Protection District to allow it to build a substation in the area.

The property includes a three-acre portion that will be the grounds for the station, and a former mill road that could have other uses.

“It’s going to be a permanent home for the Disston fire station, and the donation helps strengthen the valley and will safeguard critical water resources and support long-term community resilience,” said Kathleen Istudor, the executive director of Row River Fire Response, a non-profit that supports and helped found the district.

She said the area is ecologically important to several communities in the area.

"It supports the local community, of course, sustains wildl

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