Biologists believed wolverines had disappeared from Oregon, with the last confirmed sightings dating back to the early 1970s. That all changed this year.
Five days after discovering wolverine tracks in the Wallowa Mountains of Northeast Oregon, researcher Audrey Magoun downloaded photos of two wolverines from a bait station camera.
Biologists captured three wolves last weekend and attached collars equipped with tracking devices to help study the movements of the endangered predators.
The U.S. Forest Service visitor center and ranger district offices for the popular Wallowa Mountains region of northeastern Oregon has burned to the ground.
A U.S. Forest Service employee died Thursday while working in Eastern Oregon, but the circumstances are not yet clear. The Baker City Herald reports the unidentified worker had been helping to clean up a marijuana-growing operation discovered southwest of Unity.
The injunction issued Nov. 26 is the latest in a batch of legal rulings prompted by a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club against the U.S. Forest Service.
A dirt road in the Elkhorn Mountains that leads to a rental cabin, wilderness hiking trails and a campsite popular during hunting seasons is closed until at least next summer.
Some firefighters were expected to begin leaving Oregon's most persistent wildfire, the Edley complex, taking time off or heading for other operations.