Nearly every fall for more than a decade, I’ve found myself on an eastward migration from my home in Bend to the Blue Mountains for a chance to hunt elk with my bow. During these hunts, I’ve explored ...

The Malheur, Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman national forests, collectively known as the Blue Mountains, have been operating under a forest management plan developed over 30 years ago. The most recent ...

PENDLETON — After taking a step back this spring from updating the long-term management plans for the three national forests in the Blue Mountains after 15 years of trying, the U.S. Forest Service is ...

The three national forests in the Blue Mountains have scheduled a series of public meetings during July to gather public comments about the ongoing process to revise the long-term management plans for ...

A mountain goat moves up a ridge in the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness. JOHN DAY — Groups that have long been at odds on forest management issues have reached a consensus on goals and desired ...

BAKER CITY — Start with a swath of land more than twice as big as Rhode Island and Delaware. Combined. Then turn this sprawling piece of ground into the topographic equivalent of a patch of sand where ...

LEWISTON – In a stunning rebuke, the Washington, D.C., office of the U.S. Forest Service has withdrawn recently completed plans for management of the Umatilla, Wallowa-Whitman and Malheur national ...

The Blues Intergovernmental Council (BIC) supports the USDA Forest Service’s plans to reinitiate Forest Plan Revision for the Malheur, Umatilla, and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests. The work ...

4.9 million acres of public land in Eastern Oregon are currently operating under plans and science that date back to 1990. The Forest Service is supposed to update their management plans every 15 ...