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PORTLAND, Ore - Passed by the U.S. House and moving on to the Senate, the Resilient Federal Forests Act is aimed at protecting forests from fires. But conservation groups in Idaho and across the country say it undermines the most meaningful efforts to do just that. ...

A big part of my work lately has been reviewing a report on climate change. I’ve been up to my eyeballs in climate change information, reviewing facts and figures and all the latest science on what the impacts look like in our valley.The picture it paints for us it extremely bleak, but there is hope here in Southern Oregon if we take action soon.It’s hard not to be distressed by climate change. I recently read an article that states that simply thinking about climate change can

The increase in forest fires, seen this summer from North America to the Mediterranean to Siberia, is directly linked to climate change, scientists say. And as the world continues to warm, there will be greater risk for fires on nearly every continent.  

Here's why fires are exploding up and down the state, with answers by Bill Patzert, a climatologist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laborator...

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has proposed that President Trump make changes to 10 national monuments, including Bears Ears in southern Utah, according to a memo addressed to the White House.

There tends to be a controversy attached to any official designation of a wilderness area. The argument against wilderness set-asides is that they restrict

We're waiting on Zinke's announcement on the fate of 21 national monuments.

As Oregonians anxiously await news of the fate of their beloved Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, now under review for possible elimination or reduction in size, it is heartening that Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are working to see that more — not less — of our beautiful public land is safeguarded for our kids and grandchildren. Their Oregon Wildlands legislation recently had a Senate hearing — an important milestone toward passage.

Scientists uncover why it starts raining in the region several months before it should

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke made a last-minute visit to southern Oregon the weekend of July 15, and I made a quick change in my plans to be there to see

In response to Trump, the West’s most liberal state goes on the offensive.

Flames encroached, people fled, homes burned. A surplus of precipitation this winter may have busted the California drought, but as wildfires sweep the West, firefighting agencies are grappling with another blistering season.

President Donald Trump and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke have launched an unprecedented attack on America’s national parks, public lands, and oceans. In their crosshairs are 27 monuments—5 ocean and 22 land-based—that may face elimination or significant changes that undermine their protections. These national monuments help define us as a nation by protecting areas with cultural or historical significance, and they also serve as parks that provide recreation, wildlife habitat, climate change resilience, and a retreat from busy cities. A new analysis by the Center for American Progress and Conservation Science Partners of the 22 land-based national monuments at risk finds that—scientifically and ecologically speaking—these places are some of the best parks in the country.

(CN) — Dave Willis rides a mid-size gelding named Chance through towering firs interspersed with ponderosa and lodgepole pine as spruce and hemlock hover over a forest floor covered with Jurassic fern. As the executive director of the Soda Mountain Wilderness Council navigates through the southern reaches of the Cascade Range, lichen hang from the branches of the coniferous trees, swaying in the wind. At mid-June, the wildflower bloom is nearing its peak.

By Anshu Siripurapu

At a rate of more than 100 to 1, comments are flowing into the Department of the Interior denouncing the effort to review, and perhaps undo, up to 22 national monuments. On the chopping block in this state is the Hanford Reach monument along the Columbia River.

A call to action by leading nature photographers to preserve U.S. National Monuments.

Voters in Oregon's Coos County are considering a May ballot measure that would block the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas project. The measure is a

How the president’s ‘deconstruction’ doctrine threatens public lands.

President Trump is ordering a "review" of at least 24 national monuments designated since the beginning of 1996, a sweeping action that is intended to shrink boundaries and reduce protections. Here are some of the monuments under attack, ranging from rare wildlife habitat to Native American archaeological ruins.

Rachel Carson’s 1962 book "Silent Spring" helped jump-start the modern day environmental movement. Carson passed away before the inaugural Earth Day in 1970, but as Earth Day approaches on April 22, it’s important to remember that we are part of a movement to safeguard our planet, its wildlife and precious waters. Here in the Klamath-Siskiyou, over a very short period, humans utterly transformed the landscape. As recently as the 1950s, we clear-cut vital old growth forests and

Republicans seek to weaken a transformative conservation law that has protected some of America’s most magnificent landscapes.

Republican plans to pare back Obama’s dedications fall short of the law.