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 ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry is holding three virtual public meetings this week to take comments on the rules before they’re used to build a map intended to classify the wildfire risk on ...

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. ...

Drought, coupled with last year's heat waves, have weakened the health of forests across Oregon. "In Oregon, we're facing several emerging issues: drought, fire, tree decline, insect outbreaks ...

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.

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.

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 ...