Courtesy of Mason Marsh via Oregon Department of Forestry Oregon forestry officials now have a general idea of how they’ll find a new state forester — more than four months after Cal Mukumoto’s sudden ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry will host a virtual informational session on a proposed rule change to adopt a new Forest Management Plan for state forest lands managed by the ...

The projected costs for wildfire protection and response for the state this year stand at about $136 million. Two Democratic lawmakers have different proposals on how to fund the combat of wildfires.

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — The Oregon Department of Forestry and the USDA Forest Service will conduct low-level flights in June to monitor forest health. This survey, which began in the 1940s and paused ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Older trees in an Eastern Oregon forest are perishing “at an alarming rate,” according to researchers. A new study led by James Johnston, an assistant research professor for ...

SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Forestry is moving forward with a controversial new Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP). The plan is meant to help endangered species by protecting almost 700,000 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Fish and amphibian habitats on private industrial forestlands now receive expanded protection under Oregon law, part of a sweeping set of changes to the state’s forest practice ...

The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Congress has given the ...

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 ...

For a small but growing number of Oregon forestland buyers, timber output is no more than a potential byproduct. Their purchases are driven less by a desire for logs than for another resource flowing ...

A top Oregon state official has been put on administrative leave after a pink-haired, DEI-obsessed subordinate complained he was making hiring decisions based on qualifications instead of personal ...