As the page turns to 2025, issues related to climate, wildlife, ecosystems and natural disasters in Central Oregon are ...

Oregon State University A new report spells out exactly how much Oregon’s kelp forests have dwindled over the past decade or so — and the picture is bleak. According to a status report ...

Read more: 20 Prettiest Waters Around The World Crescent Lake is located in Oregon's Deschutes National Forest, a large preserve in central Oregon and a magnificent display of Oregon's impressive ...

Discover Your Forest, in partnership with the Deschutes National Forest, is hosting the first Young Women's Wildland Fire Career Camp March 26-29 in Redmond. The free camp is designed to ...

Oregon’s forests were once full of old-growth, but today, less than 10 percent of old-growth trees still stand, environmental advocacy group Oregon Wild estimates. Despite their essential role in ...

Our outdoors team reported in 2024 on hot springs, waterfalls, underwater forests and places with chunky brook trout.

Wild horse advocates on Monday asked a three-member panel of the Ninth Circuit to stop the U.S. Forest Service’s plan to remove 78 wild horses — more than half the local population — from a central ...

a geneticist with the U.S. Forest Service. He says they're short about 200,000 acres — and that's just in one part of Oregon. The warming environment also means fewer seedlings will likely grow ...

Medford, Oregon — In the heart of Southern Oregon's Fremont-Winema National Forest, crews are going to new heights to harvest a precious commodity. "We're looking for the ripe cones on the top ...

Paula Bronstein / AP For those interested in a unique, outdoor family outing, permits are available to harvest Christmas trees from Oregon’s national forests. Permits are $5 each and there’s a ...