Lovell comes from the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services and was unanimously appointed by the State Land Board.

Gov. Tina Kotek has released a map of state property that could be redeveloped for housing, hoping to offer new options to developers who say scarce land is limiting construction of new homes. The ...

A bill sponsored by State Senator David Smith (R-Port Orford), State Senator Fred Girod (R-Stayton) and State Senator Lynn Findley (R-Vale) and currently in the Oregon Senate Committee on Natural ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Forestry has published a draft of its new “wildfire hazards” map, which identifies the areas of the state most threatened by wildfires.The Oregon ...

In the 1940s, 15 counties foreclosed on forest lands from owners who failed to pay property tax, then turned those tracts over to the state government in return for a portion of the timber revenues.

Oregon State University has acquired 3,110 acres of industrial timberland just outside Portland on the north edge of Forest Park and plans to run it as a working research forest for logging ...

The Tualatin Mountain Forest project will secure a 3,111-acre forest near Scappoose as a working research forest to be owned and managed by Oregon State University.

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Trust for Public Land and Oregon State University announced the acquisition of more than three thousand acres of land near Forest Park for conservation and research on Friday.

The Oregon Department of Forestry approved a plan, which preserves almost 700,000 acres of state forest land for endangered species over the next 70 years.

Mount Hood’s Timberline Lodge, for example, which is owned by the U.S. Forest Service, has a more severe wildfire hazard designation than 96.15% of properties in Oregon, according to the map.

The Oregon Department of Forestry approved a plan, which preserves almost 700,000 acres of state forest land for endangered species over the next 70 years. To stream KGW on your phone, you need ...