Dozens of homeless people who have been living in a national forest in central Oregon for years were being evicted Thursday by the U.S. Forest Service, as it closed the area for a wildfire ...

Dozens of homeless people who have been living in a national forest in central Oregon for years were being evicted Thursday by the US Forest Service, as it closed the area for a wildfire ...

A person walks to a tent at a homeless encampment in Deschutes National Forest, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, near Bend, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) BEND, Ore. (AP) — Dozens of homeless people who ...

The U.S. Forest Service began closing a sprawling homeless encampment in an Oregon national forest on Thursday, closing the area for a fire-prevention project and forcing those living there to ...

The Deschutes National Forest closed 34,600 acres south of Bend for a yearlong forest management project, displacing a large homeless encampment. The closure, intended to mitigate wildfire risk ...

The Deschutes National Forest closure will affect approximately 34,600 acres and could lead to fines or jail time for homeless campers who remain. Homeless advocates argue the closure will ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click ...

The 150-acre wildfire burning in the Ocala National Forest was 75% contained as of midday May 3, according to Ludie Bond, a wildlife mitigation specialist with the Florida Forest Service.

Dozens of people forced to leave the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon set up camp nearby in different wooded areas. A man prepared to leave his camp inside the Deschutes National Forest in ...

The federal agency has been working for years on plans to close part of the Deschutes National Forest near Bend for forest restoration and wildfire mitigation. But the number of people living in ...