Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BEND — Chris Daggett spent the night of April 30 and the morning of May 1 attempting to pull out as many friends and neighbors as ...

After the spotted owl controversy of the 1980s, the Forest Service lost its social license to log public forests to subsidize the private timber industry. Searching for a new justification for logging ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Deschutes National Forest was conducting more than 250 acres of prescribed burn operations Thursday on the Bend-Fort Rock, Crescent and Sisters ranger districts, as well as a ...

BEND, Oregon — A federal judge rejected a last-minute request to delay Thursday’s eviction of nearly 150 homeless campers in the Deschutes National Forest. They’ll be forced to leave the public land ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Deschutes National Forest announced Wednesday that firefighters plan to start spring prescribed burning season as early as mid-April, if conditions become favorable. The ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Several campsite openings in Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest have been delayed ahead of Memorial Day weekend after lingering snowpack stalled preseason maintenance and ...

Discover Your Forest, a Bend-based nonprofit, has put out a call for volunteers to participate in summer education and interpretive programs in the Deschutes National Forest. Prospective volunteers ...

BEND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service on Thursday is set to evict dozens of homeless people living in an encampment in a federal forest in central Oregon. The federal agency has been working for ...

Kathryn Styer Martínez / OPB This week, the Deschutes National Forest decided to allow certain e-bikes on 161 miles of trails in Central Oregon. Trail networks near Sisters, Bend and Sunriver that ...

Due to the continued activity of the Bachelor Complex fire, the Deschutes National Forest has updated and increased the temporary emergency fire closure area on the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District, ...