US Forest Service

The previously unmapped aquifer is estimated to be more than three times the size of the Lake Mead reservoir in Nevada.

The U.S. Forest Service is looking for new wildland firefighters in Oregon and Washington.

Fire officials say the rains over the weekend have helped them make progress on Oregon’s forest fires, reducing heat and dampening potential fuels.

The U.S. Forest Service is warning that hundreds of thousands of acres of forestlands across the Pacific Northwest are burning under record-breaking dry conditions this summer, without much relief in sight.

Thanks to recovery efforts in the Willamette Valley, a prairie flower is being removed from the federal endangered species list.

Teams of forest specialists are surveying areas affected by the Bedrock Fire east of Eugene, in order to assess risks to people and the environment.

Expanded monitoring in Oregon’s Siuslaw National Forest would protect the health of two scenic tributaries.

The Lionshead Fire burning on the Warm Springs Reservation has grown to 14,967 acres, prompting the U.S. Forest Service to close a large portion of the…

Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has given a week’s notice to a federal forest official, to better explain how firefighters and rural communities will…

When Native Americans ceded their lands during the treaty era, much of it was forest. Today, many tribes – including those in Oregon – are not only…

Climate change has created hotter and drier conditions, which in turn have made wildfires larger and more intense. As KLCC’s Brian Bull reports, a new…

Air attacks on the Terwilliger Fire burning east and west of the Cougar Reservoir were suspended Sunday after an unmanned aircraft system, or “drone”, was…