"It's kind of a sleepy, quiet little place in some respects out there," said John Allen, Deschutes National Forest supervisor.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service announced Friday it is offering $2,500 and a coalition of conservation groups is putting up $7,500.

Clayton Weir has a job that would make many people jealous. He works from home. He makes his own hours. He has a beautiful view and, most of the time, it is pretty low stress.

Clayton Weir works from home and makes his own hours but spends the summer alone — except for his trusty dog Jack — on a high mountaintop overlooking ridge upon ridge of forested wilderness. | Photo Gallery: Historic photos of Table Rock Lookout

This is the first wolf in the Wenaha pack to be collared and will allow biologists to track the pack, make a more accurate population estimate, monitor breeding activity and collar other wolves in the pack. | Photo Gallery

The body of Nathan Cain of Walla Walla, Wash.has been found by searchers. Nathan who had been skiing with his father and some adult friends became separated from the group Saturday in Union County.

Eleven tags for the Rocky Mountain goat are available for Oregon's 2009 hunting season. Eighteen of those goats now can be found near Baker City, where they were released by Fish and Wildlife officials in July.

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife wolf coordinator Russ Morgan heard at least two adults and two pups answer his howls under a bright moon in the pre-dawn hours Friday on the Umatilla National Forest in northern Union County.

The lawsuit is pitting environmentalists against the U.S. Forest Service and could decide how the government is allowed to log old-growth conifers burned by fire. A federal appeals court panel is deciding the issue.