The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission dealt another blow to the Jordan Cove Energy Project and Pacific Connector Pipeline on Tuesday.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission dealt another blow to the Jordan Cove Energy Project and Pacific Connector Pipeline on Tuesday.
Fire officials from various Douglas County agencies will be keeping a close eye on the Archie Creek Fire burn area for the coming months, years and potentially decades.
The Association of O&C Counties Wednesday voiced support for a new federal decision that will exclude all O&C timberlands from the 9.5 million acres previously designated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as critical habitat for the northern spotted owl.
While families were kicking off their Labor Day weekend, National Weather Service observers in Medford were seeing an unsettling weather pattern developing for southwest Oregon.
Diamond Lake Resort received an estimated 22 inches of fresh snow over the past weekend and could see as much as an additional 12 to 24 inches Wednesday to Monday as a series of wet weather systems roll through the region.
DIAMOND LAKE — The mountains in eastern Douglas County turned into a winter wonderland this December, which brought hundreds of visitors to Diamond Lake last weekend.
It’s about to become easier to salvage timber on Bureau of Land Management lands.
When Melinda and Travis Woodward bought the Steamboat Inn in 2017, the move was intended to secure their “forever” home.
Cascadia Wildlands and a group of other environmental organizations filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday over protections for the northern spotted owl.
In September 2019, a group of small timberland owners and forestry officials gathered at a junction on South Lone Rock Lane east of Glide to recognize Doug and Becky Schlatter as the Oregon Small Woodlands Association’s 2019 Douglas County Tree Farmers of the Year.
Harvey Saul has spent his entire adult life involved with the logging industry.
Those boot-shorn explorers who enjoy the North Umpqua River corridor’s many beautiful hiking trails will have to table their adventures until, at least, the summer of 2021.
The Stewart Park Nature Area is being remodeled.
The Roseburg branch of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is looking to reward anglers for going fishing.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s deadline to apply for disaster assistance passed Monday, but help for wildfire survivors is still available as FEMA is continuing its work with the Oregon Office of Emergency Management.
The debate over the fate of the Winchester Dam may soon reach its spill-over point in United States District Court.
Residents and businesses along the Highway 138 East corridor along the North Umpqua River remain without landline telephone service. The Oregon Public Utilities Commission has set a deadline on having some level of voice telephone service available to those residents by Tuesday.
Source One Serenity, a nonprofit for veterans, will hold a community meeting online at 5 p.m. Nov. 24 to talk about its worm farm recycling program.
It’s long been said that cats have nine lives.
CORVALLIS — Oregon State University and state Department of State Lands officials participated Thursday in a two-hour remote session on OSU’s draft plan for the Elliott State Forest.
GLIDE — A drive east from Roseburg on Highway 138 East toward Glide had been fairly pedestrian this summer: a car here or there, a contractor’s truck and trailer, the occasional neighbor someone might recognize.
On a warm Thursday in early September, Francis Eatherington of Cascadia Wildlands stood in front of a red cedar tree hundreds of years old and voiced opposition to the BLM’s plan to cut it as part of the proposed Umpqua Sweets timber harvest plan.
The Roseburg law firm of Dole Coalwell formally filed suit Friday in Douglas County Circuit Court, accusing Pacific Power and its parent company, PacifiCorp, of negligence when it came to the Archie Creek and French Creek fires, which started in the early morning hours on Sept. 8, east of Glide.
Much of the equipment the Douglas County Wolf Advisory Board plans to purchase for non-lethal gray wolf management was determined Monday afternoon during the board’s public meeting at the Douglas County Courthouse.
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On Saturday, Sept. 6, the National Weather Service issued a “Red Flag” warning for much of western Oregon.
Much of Douglas County’s wildlife, in one way or another, has been affected or displaced by the effects of the Archie Creek Fire east of Glide.
Juvenile coho salmon that survived after much of the Rock Creek Hatchery was destroyed by the Archie Creek Fire this past month will be raised at the rearing facility at Eastwood Elementary School in Roseburg, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Thursday afternoon.
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Two attorneys experienced in representing victims of wildfires will be filing a “mass action” lawsuit against Pacific Power, citing the company’s negligence in the ignition of the Archie Creek Fire.
With favorable weather conditions over the past week, the Umpqua National Forest and Bureau of Land Management-Roseburg District, have removed Public Use Restrictions effective Wednesday.
Umpqua Community Veg Education Group had its ribbon-cutting ceremony for its newly-established Gateway Community Garden on Oct. 3
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, visited Frank and Jeanne Moore on Saturday to present them with one of the items they lost when the Archie Creek Fire burned their Idleyld Park home to the ground.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday morning that all remaining Level 1 “Be Ready” evacuation orders pertaining to the Archie Creek and Thielsen fires have been lifted.
Douglas County Public Health Officer Bob Dannenhoffer declared a local health emergency on Monday in response to the recent wildfires.
Diamond Lake Resort opened its doors to guests Saturday, as the U.S. Forest Service announced a lowering of fire-related closures connected with the nearby Thielsen Fire.
Elevated temperatures and lowering humidities slowed progress on containment on both the Archie Creek and Thielsen fires Tuesday.
