PORTLAND — Governor Kate Brown signed the bipartisan Private Forest Accord package, Senate Bills 1501 and 1502, and House Bill 4055, at the World Forestry Center in Portland on Wednesday.
PORTLAND — Governor Kate Brown signed the bipartisan Private Forest Accord package, Senate Bills 1501 and 1502, and House Bill 4055, at the World Forestry Center in Portland on Wednesday.
Today marks the traditional start to fire season in the Umpqua Basin. Extended rains and cooler overnight temperatures may push that day back this spring, but residents are still encouraged to make sure their homes have plenty of defensible space as fire season lurks around the bend.
On Friday, Gov. Kate Brown declared a drought emergency in four Oregon counties, including Douglas.
Lines of people looking at displays of beautiful stones, weaving themselves around and around tables full of geologic perfection. Fingers pointed and eyes lit up at the treasures pulled from the ground as they are found again by patrons and rockhounds spending the day at the Douglas County F…
The reauthorization of $238 million dollars to the Secure Rural Schools program from Congress is set to restore the SRS program. Douglas County is one of 31 Oregon counties scheduled to receive portions of this funding.
GLIDE — The educational forest in Glide was filled with learning and laughter Thursday as fifth grade students from across Douglas County took part in the Douglas County Forestry Tour.
One shovelful of dirt at a time, fifth-grade students at Fir Grove Elementary School in Roseburg helped plant trees on the school’s grounds Friday afternoon.
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission is expected to decide if the North Umpqua summer steelhead hatchery production should continue, be modified, or be eliminated effective this month, as part of its meeting happening Thursday and Friday in Astoria.
The City of Roseburg is sending out a reminder to residents: It’s time to cut down the risk of fire by managing tall grasses and weeds.
The wildfire season in Texas appears to have never officially ended from 2021, and the state has put out a nationwide call for reinforcements.
Low summer steelhead runs in the North Umpqua basin have caused experts at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to take action. After 450 wild summer steelhead returned to the basin last year, they wanted to know why.
Dave Vangsness stands six feet up a step ladder, driving in the final screws to secure a metal roof on a brand new deck.
Feathers are getting ruffled over the fate of two domesticated geese who have made Ford’s Pond Community Park their home.
Spending time along the North Umpqua River has long been a favorite pastime of Douglas County residents and visitors alike, and this spring break there are several hiking areas open and more are expected to reopen before the summer.
A new grant program will help home and business owners make their buildings more fire resistant when they rebuild from the 2020 Archie Creek Fire.
Diamond Fire of Sutherlin was one of eight Oregon wildland fire suppression companies to be included in a $640 million grant to help create additional resources to combat wildfires on United State National Forest lands.
Rick Sohn has a dream. He wants to save wildland habitat on O&C timberlands managed by the BLM.
Two longtime Rotarians were honored with red benches at River Forks County Park last week.
Members of the public should have their chance to weigh in this summer about the future of the Rock Creek Fish Hatchery, most of which burned to the ground in the 2020 Archie Creek Fire.
A group of environmental organizations filed a lawsuit Tuesday that challenges the Bureau of Land Management’s post-Archie Creek Fire logging plans.
Doyle Canning filed Thursday for a second run at the congressional seat currently held by Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, remembered the late Frank Moore and his widow Jeanne Moore in testimony on the U.S. Senate floor Thursday.
The city of Reedsport has regained its status as a Tree City USA, a program of the National Arbor Day Foundation.
Frank Moore, legendary World War II veteran, fly fisherman and champion of the North Umpqua River, died Sunday, just a week before he would have had his 99th birthday.
At a visit to CHI Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg on Friday, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden promised to do what he can to help address hospital staffing shortages exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Water’s rushing through Douglas County’s streams and rivers and the snowpack looks good.
Until recently, Oregon’s southernmost glacier was on Mt. Thielsen, an extinct volcano mountain in the Cascade Range, east of Diamond Lake in Douglas County.
The state Department of Justice has been illegally spying on opponents of the Pacific Connector Pipeline, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Oregon Circuit Court in Marion County.
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The developers that had hoped to build the Pacific Connector Pipeline and Jordan Cove Energy Project have told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission they do not intend to move forward with the project.
In February 2020, 13 environmental groups and 13 timber industry groups began holding a series of meetings around a virtual table.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced last week it would reconsider its conditional permit for the Jordan Cove Energy Project and Pacific Connector Pipeline.
Four insurance companies have filed a lawsuit against PacifiCorp and its subsidiary, Pacific Power, seeking more than $3 million for purported negligence in the Archie Creek Fire last year.
Growing European green crab populations throughout Coos Bay are likely to impact Dungeness crabs and coastal habitat, according to a new report by researchers at South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Five employees from the Medford branch of Western States Environmental have spent this week cleaning up garbage and debris from underneath the bridge near northeast Stephens Street and northeast Diamond Lake Boulevard.
With the holidays fast approaching one thing is on everyone’s mind — food! We plan for the big feasts, the gathering of family and friends and dread the dishes.
U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield, said Tuesday it’s important to examine whether the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s assistance to communities suffering from wildfires is adequate.
