Oregon lawmakers passed an oral nicotine tax to pay for some wildfire costs, while a bill aimed at getting wildfire survivors ...

Oregon's forests are ailing as heat, drought and wildfires take their toll. Story by Ashley Koch • 2h. O n Friday, the Oregon Department of Forestry launched its annual aerial survey of forests ...

Credit: Oregon Department of Forestry One map shows the damage to forests last year just from drought, heat, insects and disease — everything but wildfires, essentially. The darker red spots ...

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — Oregon has finalized its statewide maps of wildfire hazard zones and the wildland-urban interface, with the final versions now accessible on the Oregon Explorer website. ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry is planning on revising the state's wildfire risk map after facing backlash and says the department will likely create a draft map along with a public comment period.

The revised statewide maps of wildfire hazard zones and the wildland-urban interface are complete and final versions are now available on the Oregon Explorer website, the Oregon Department of ...

Map courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service. ... The Western Oregon State Forests Habitat Conservation Plan would create new logging policies on 640,000 acres of state lands west of the Cascades.

How to purchase a permit to cut your Christmas tree from an Oregon national forest. ... Consult a map: Maps of the forests show where harvesting trees is legal and not legal.

7. Highest Peaks Mount Hood, a potentially active stratovolcano, stands as the state's highest peak at 3,428.8 m. In the southeastern corner of Oregon, Steens Mountain, an 80 km (50 mi) long fault ...

The folks at the Oregon Department of Forestry have retracted their new multi-million-dollar map identifying 80,000 privately owned parcels of land that are at high risk of burning up during ...

This article appears in print in the October 2019 issue, as part of the Fall Road Trips cover story. Click here to subscribe. Long ago, I was a cub reporter at a TV station in Oregon when war broke ...

Dunn and Oregon State researchers worked with the U.S. Forest Service and the Oregon Department of Forestry in 2022 to develop the searchable “Wildfire Risk Explorer” map, which the state ...