IDLEYLD PARK— The Umpqua Fishery Enhancement Derby hosted its first event Wednesday with the annual Student Day, where local high school students traveled to the Rock Creek Pavilion outside of Glide to hear from industry professionals working in natural resources.
IDLEYLD PARK— The Umpqua Fishery Enhancement Derby hosted its first event Wednesday with the annual Student Day, where local high school students traveled to the Rock Creek Pavilion outside of Glide to hear from industry professionals working in natural resources.
There is a recruiting battle brewing, and it has nothing to do with collegiate athletics.
DOUGLAS COUNTY — Jennifer Catlett misses the nice, quiet neighborhood she moved to near Council Creek outside of Riddle two years ago. It’s where children played freely and livestock — such as horses, chickens and goats — wandered around.
ROSEBURG — Roseburg business FCC Commercial Furniture was fined $3,300 by the Department of Environmental Quality for air quality.
Tensions ran high at a Douglas County Planning Department meeting Thursday evening while discussing the city of Roseburg’s request for a permit that would allow the development of three miles of hiking trails in Sunshine Park.
After nearly a decade of consistent, deadly wildfires across the United States, funds are being invested to stem the next disaster before it starts.
The Umpqua Fishery Enhancement Derby will host its 31st annual series of events in February, with proceeds going toward fish restoration, enhancement and education projects in the Umpqua Basin.
PORTLAND — In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and to increase recreational access to public land, the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service announced they are waiving recreation standard amenity and day-use fees for visitors on Monday.
Nicole Watson and her family have lived in the yellow house on Grange Road in Green for nearly four years. The one-mile stretch next to her home is nothing short of chaos: trash, RVs, dogs and about 10 homeless people occupy the area. Piles of garbage bags litter the wet dirt and grass.
For some, retirement is the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of labor. Exploration, more time with family, do the things one has always dreamed of.
Nominations for Oregon Community Trees and the Oregon Department of Forestry urban forestry award program are now open.
CRATER LAKE —Starting Jan. 1, 2023, Oregon's national park is joining an effort that will offer visitors access to four parks for the price of one.
An Air Stagnation Advisory has been extended through 10 p.m. Sunday for the valleys of southwest and south-central Oregon.
More than two years after the most devastating wildfire in Douglas County’s recorded history, six more lawsuits have been filed against PacifiCorp alleging negligence as it is suspected to have ignited three separate fires that became the Archie Creek Fire.
SALEM — The State Land Board took historic action Tuesday toward creation of the Elliott State Research Forest.
Throughout the Hundred Valleys of the Umpqua during the first 10 months of this year, the specialists for Wildlife Services Oregon predator control have assisted landowners of about 110 properties in protecting their livestock, pets and infrastructure.
WINCHESTER BAY — The Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reopened all recreational crabbing from Cape Blanco to the California border, after two consecutive tests show domoic acid levels are under the closure threshold.
Gathering along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County on Thursday, Governor Kate Brown joined California Governor Gavin Newsom, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and leaders of the Klamath, Yurok and Karuk tribes to celebrate final approval of a dam removal project that advocates say…
On a cold Wednesday morning on Wild Iris Lane, a rural hilltop gravel drive off of Sunshine Road, east of Roseburg, a group of workers gathered with chainsaws, tree trimmers and hard hats.
Oregon State Parks annual parking permits are on sale through December for $25.
Christmas tree permits are now available online and through local vendors.
Umpqua Fishery Enhancement Derby announced a new Underwater World of Umpqua Fish livestream will give people the ability to watch migrating fish pass by an underwater window at the Winchester Dam Fish Ladder and learn more about fish species, sizes and patterns of behavior.
Within a matter of 10 minutes, the Douglas Forest Protective Association and neighboring fire resources were engaged on a pair of large wildfires burning east of Sutherlin and east of Azalea Saturday afternoon.
Question: I see amaryllis bulbs for sale everywhere during the holiday season. The pictures on the boxes promise such beautiful blooms. Are these flowers hard to grow?
The Bureau of Land Management organized a season of controlled and prescribed burns throughout the Roseburg District and Douglas County beginning this week and continuing into the early spring of 2023.
OREGON — Parking will be free at Oregon State Parks the day after Thanksgiving, Nov. 25, sometimes called "Green Friday."
WINSTON — Two tiger cubs were trying to take a nap Monday morning. Instead, they had to get weighed and checked before they were able to close their eyes.
The North Umpqua Foundation awarded scholarships to two Douglas County students who will pursue research in topics related to the ecology and management of the North Umpqua River.
NEWPORT — An increased number of stranded California sea lions along the entire Oregon coast is due to leptospirosis, a naturally-occurring bacteria, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
IDLEYLD PARK — More than two years ago the Rock Creek Fish Hatchery east of Glide was destroyed as the Archie Creek Fire burned its way down the Rock Creek drainage.
Douglas County residents may soon be called as prospective jurors to hear the lawsuit of Archie Creek Fire victims against PacifiCorp, which is accused of helping cause the September 2020 fire which burned more than 130,000 acres and destroyed in excess of 100 homes.
CRATER LAKE — Crater Lake National Park’s North Entrance Road and Rim Drive are closed for the season.
The Emergency Fire Cost Committee, which oversees the landowner-funded Oregon Forest Land Protection Fund, recently voted unanimously to allocate over $1.4 million to seven projects.
GLIDE — Seattle-based timber company Weyerhaeuser sent representatives to Glide Saturday to donate 10,000 Douglas Fir seedlings to residents who lost trees on their land during the 2020 Archie Creek fire.
The Douglas Forest Protective Association officially ended the 2022 fire season effective Sunday, for lands under the agency's management.
