A Portland man recounts his terrifying and surreal evacuation from the Holiday Farm Fire in Oregon’s Willamette National Forest

On the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, we remember the women who fought for the right to vote and those who have made good on their promise through environmentalism

A unanimous vote by Columbia River Gorge Commission marks the first major change to urban boundary policy in more than three decades

Dumpsters and garbage cans are overwhelmed by illegal dumping. That’s just the start of record levels of abuse of public lands

In an effort to reach a compromise between conservationists and the local ranching community, Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are co-sponsoring legislation would designate 1.1 million acres of wilderness in Malheur County...

To put it simply, buses and trains can move more people with fewer vehicles. And fewer vehicles translates to less carbon emissions...

Against the odds, the Nez Perce tribe is coaxing coho to return to their ancestral river

Managed as part of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge Complex since 1987, the Steigerwald Refuge sits right at the western boundary of the Columbia River Gorge. And this year, it will undergo a major transformation: being reconnected to the river...

Intensive agricultural practices — especially plowing — have depleted soil carbon and released major amounts of methane and nitrous oxide, two potent greenhouse gases. But an existing approach known as regenerative agriculture helps to reverse the gradient...

A land sale proposed by Weyerhaeuser exposes the divide between two Wild and Scenic River advocates, private landowners, and federal river managers on the White Salmon River...

Home to nesting Sandhill Cranes, roaming elk herds, and the threatened Oregon Spotted Frog, Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a rich pocket of biodiversity on the east side of the Cascades...

According to a study that was published this summer in Science, planting roughly a trillion more trees around the world might be our most effective strategy for combating climate change...