A new wildfire east of Springfield grew to 3,100 acres in the Fall Creek area and has brought poor air quality to Central ...

Wildfire smoke blanketing parts of Northern California and southern Oregon have brought some of the worst air quality to the Shasta Cascade region so far in July. In addition to the 15,000-acre ...

There were more than 6,600 lightning strikes across the state and 873 of those were recorded in Central Oregon, an official ...

You won't have to travel through the desert to a lake with no name, but to get there, you will need to make it through a ...

Crater Lake may be the big draw to central Oregon, but the Umpqua River corridor certainly earns a place on your road trip itinerary. And while it may not have the crowds or fanfare of Oregon's more ...

The snow continues to melt in the mountains, and now most all high-elevation trails in the Central Oregon Cascades are ...

The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for fire weather in the Central Oregon Cascades and Deschutes ...

Nature lovers will find plenty to fall for at the World Forestry Center in Portland, which offers everything from Bigfoot ...

Posted: May 1, 2025 / 07:30 AM PDT Updated: Apr 30, 2025 / 05:20 PM PDT ... The Oregon Department of Forestry says the annual aerial survey is the longest-running survey of its kind in the U.S.

All of it can be seen on a .8-mile out-and-back hike. Watson Falls cascades from a tall cliff in the Umpqua National Forest in Oregon’s south central Cascade Mountains. Jamie Hale | The Oregonian ...

Areas hardest hit by drought, such as the eastern foothills of the Cascades and some parts of northeastern Oregon, saw the largest amount of non-wildfire tree damage — some 2.26 million acres ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Last year’s record-breaking wildfire season contributed to the trend of harsh conditions for Oregon forests. About 1.9 million acres of land were impacted by wildfire ...