Oregon

The Fight Over Logging on U.S. Public Lands Isn’t Done Yet

Despite an Oregon court ruling in January invalidating a rule that enabled clear cutting, it’s far from the last salvo in the battle for how to fight fires or manage forests—and who can profit from it.

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Natural Disasters Are a Rising Burden for the National Guard

By Marianne Lavelle

How the Trump Budget Cuts Are Playing Out at Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

As California’s Emissions Rules Faces Court Battles, States Scramble To Save Their Climate Goals

By Rambo Talabong

Portland’s Urban Tree Plans May Face a Withering in Federal Funds

By Anna McNulty

Supercharged by Climate Change, Western Megafires Explode Simultaneously

By Kiley Price

‘Not Caused by an Act of God’: In a Rare Court Action, an Oregon County Seeks to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for Extreme Temperatures

By Victoria St. Martin

Can the Greater Sage-Grouse Be Kept Off the Endangered Species List?

By Wyatt Myskow

Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands Is the Biggest Conservation Opportunity Left in the West. If Congress Won’t Protect it, Should Biden Step in?

By Wyatt Myskow

The Oregon Coast Inspired the Novel ‘Dune.’ Does the Sci-Fi Tale Foreshadow Its Fate?

By Kiley Price

Indictment of US Forest Service ‘Burn Boss’ in Oregon Could Chill ‘Good Fires’ Across the Country

By Grant Stringer

In Oregon, a New Program Is Training Burn Bosses to Help Put More “Good Fire” on the Ground

By Grant Stringer

In Oregon Timber Country, a Town Buys the Surrounding Forests to Confront Climate-Driven Wildfires

By Grant Stringer

A Republican Leads in the Oregon Governor’s Race, Taking Aim at the State’s Progressive Climate Policies

By Emma Ricketts

Inside Clean Energy: Here Are 5 States that Took Leaps on Clean Energy Policy in 2021

By Dan Gearino

‘There Are No Winners Here’: Drought in the Klamath Basin Inflames a Decades-Old War Over Water and Fish

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

A Deadly Summer in the Pacific Northwest Augurs More Heat Waves, and More Deaths to Come

By Bob Berwyn, James Bruggers, Liza Gross

Global Warming Cauldron Boils Over in the Northwest in One of the Most Intense Heat Waves on Record Worldwide

By Judy Fahys, Bob Berwyn

Oregon Allows a Controversial Fracked Gas Power Plant to Begin Construction

By Ilana Cohen