More than 100 people were forced to leave a long-term forest homeless camp south of Bend on May 1 for a project aimed reducing wildfire risk.

Federal officials are planning to move forward with the closure of thousands of acres of U.S. Forest Service land in central Oregon where dozens of people have been living in homeless camps.

When the U.S. Forest Service announced in January that it would be closing 30,000 of Deschutes National Forest southeast of Bend for a wildfire reduction project, Steve Putnam canceled the surgery he had scheduled to remedy his carpal tunnel problems.