A unanimous Medford City Council Thursday night approved a long-range climate plan that could help soften the blow of an increasingly hotter, drier region.
One of the more stark warnings in the plan, however, is: “The City of Medford should plan for two scenarios: sudden population growth and sudden population loss.”
The population loss could be the result of another Almeda-type fire, and the population increase could result from a fire that destroys a town in, say, California, prompting a mass migration to Southern Oregon.
