Punitive fines, arrests, and sweeps don’t address the root of the problem: the lack of permanent, affordable, and adequate ...

At roughly 3:30 a.m. May 1, Deschutes National Forest officially closed 34,600 acres just south of Bend for a forest management project, known as the Cabin Butte Project, aimed at reducing the ...

I’m a native Oregonian. The central part of the state has been my home for more than a quarter century. It’s where I expected ...

The Deschutes National Forest closed 34,600 acres south of Bend for a yearlong forest management project, displacing a large homeless encampment. The closure, ...

Deschutes National Forest spokesperson Kaitlyn Webb said in an email that the closure order was “directly tied to the forest restoration work.” Homeless advocates, ...

Heavy snowfall and wet conditions in the Deschutes National Forest are impacting seasonal gate reopening, adding another challenge for an agency hit hard by federal funding cuts and a reduced ...

Dozens of people forced to leave the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon set up camp nearby in different wooded areas. A man prepared to leave his camp inside the Deschutes National Forest in ...

The Deschutes National Forest was conducting more than 250 acres of prescribed burn operations Thursday on the Bend-Fort Rock, Crescent and Sisters ranger districts, as well as a cross-boundary ...

BEND, Oregon — A federal judge rejected a last-minute request to delay Thursday’s eviction of nearly 150 homeless campers in the Deschutes National Forest. They’ll be forced to leave the ...

With less than 24 hours until the U.S. Forest Service locks the gate to their sprawling home in the Deschutes National Forest southeast of Bend, longtime campers scrambled Wednesday to move their ...

But after the Trump administration’s downsizing edict, 16 Deschutes National Forest workers got laid off and then reinstated by court order and put on administrative leave, he said.