Decades Born in Fire documents the environmental consequences of salvage logging in the Siskiyou National Forest after the 2002 Biscuit Fire. Combining beautiful footage of the Wild Illinois River Valley with interviews with key players and State Senate testimony, we learn how scientists at the Oregon State University College of Forestry combined with politicians and timber industry leaders to push their own narrow agenda at the expense of Oregon taxpayers. The story of Daniel Donato, an OSU graduate student attacked by his own professors for publishing contrary research findings, illustrates how behind the scenes politics created a situation of