A helicopter carries water to fire behind a ranch near Ukiah as part of the effort against the Battle Mountain Complex of blazes in Umatilla County. About 75% of the acres scorched in this year’s ...
ESTACADA, Ore. -- Three logging trucks were torched yesterday near a federal forest where environmental protesters have camped out to try to keep loggers from coming in and cutting down trees. Federal ...
A fire crew with a brush tender works on suppressing the Rail Ridge Fire, which has been burning south of Dayville since Sept. 2. Oregon's federal lawmakers are divided on the merits of a proposal to ...
The Trump administration rescinded a longstanding rule meant to safeguard intact forests across the West on June 23 in a move that could open 2 million acres of Oregon forests to logging and ...
A bill under consideration in the Oregon Legislature would require the Oregon Department of Forestry to set annual targets for logging in state forests. (Courtesy Oregon Department of Forestry)_ SALEM ...
According to Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild, the government’s inevitable logging in the Siuslaw project area will harm several fish and wildlife species protected under the Endangered Species Act, ...
I think Dr. Hal Salwasser's ideas on logging in Oregon are dead square right on. If you have had the opportunity to visit cities outside the valley it is patently obvious these economies are barely ...
The protest is attempting to stop logging expected to start next week. A group of about 25 community activists in southern Oregon are holding what they call a blockade to stop an already approved ...
Forest fog over the Fremont-Winema National Forest in southeastern Oregon. (U.S. Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Region/Flickr via Courthouse News) PORTLAND (CN) — Attorneys for two conservation ...
About one-third of forests across 80 drinking watersheds serving coastal cities have been cut during the last 20 years, NASA found Oregon’s coastal communities that rely on drinking water from ...
A U.S. Forest Service grazing allotment. The left side of the road, which had recently received thinning and prescribed burning treatments, fared better than the right side of the road, a control area ...
For the last 30 years, shrub and grass fires have burned far more acres and destroyed more property in the West than forest fires, and the same was true this season. Still, Republicans in the U.S.