The number of people visiting Oregon’s state park system reached an all-time high in 2024, fueled by a boom of people ...

Oregon’s state parks saw record-breaking visitation numbers in 2024. According to the agency, there were nearly 53.85 million ...

Rangers are instructed to avoid saying “fired” and downplay park service cuts after 1,000 staff were let go as part of ...

Oregon’s state parks saw record-breaking visitation numbers in 2024. According to the agency, there were nearly 53.85 million ...

Given national parks’ popularity, it can be politically precarious for ... Wil Phinney has been a reporter and editor for more than 40 years at newspapers in Oregon, Wyoming and Montana. He recently ...

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is bucking the national trend and hiring park rangers for the summer, rather than ...

Sam Peterson moved into a little yellow house up the road from the headquarters of Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area ...

A whopping 53,853,609 people made day trips to Oregon’s state parks in 2024, according to data released Friday by the Oregon ...

Oregon state parks saw a record 56.6 million visits in ... Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service, have seen substantial cuts to employees and funding and face an uncertain future ...

At Mount St. Helens, volcano monitoring and trail maintenance efforts are set to degrade without help from federal agencies.

The rangers want the public to know how many people got fired on Feb. 14 in what’s being called the “Valentine’s Day Massacre,” says one seasonal park ranger who is leading the charge.

The gray whales are on their annual migration path between breeding grounds in Mexico and feeding grounds off the coast of ...