Fort-Rock News

Off-highway vehicle riders will have a new trail system to explore just over the mountains this summer, as the Willamette National Forest has opened the new Santiam Pass Summer Motorized Recreation Area, featuring almost 50 miles of roads and trails.

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Chris Sampas, 34, of Bend, fells a juniper tree Wednesday in the Sisters Ranger District as part of a GFP Enterprises project to create a defensible space around private property.

BEND-Forest Service Road 4635, which provides access to Cultus Lake Resort and Campground in the Deschutes National Forest will close temporarily on Tuesday.

Firefighters are battling a wildland fire 30 miles southeast of Bend. The East Fort Rock Fire is believed to be human caused.

Why do we live here? Why do we keep coming here? This Oregon journey has been going on for quite some time, from the earliest Oregonians - those who, thousands of years ago, crossed the Bearing Land Bridge to the Oregon Trail - to today, where somewhere in this state, someone is unpacking their belongings and calling Oregon their new home.

Botanist Charmane Powers, with the U.S. Forest Service's Bend-Fort Rock District, explains to volunteers from Oregon State University what types of weeds they should look for and where to find them on Saturday morning.

Organizations with a proposal for utilizing Skyliner Lodge should contact Rick Wesseler, special uses coordinator by May 29 at the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District, at 541-383-4792 or at rwesseler@fs.fed.us. The historic Skyliner Lodge on Tumalo Creek west of Bend needs a new tenant, the Deschutes National Forest announced this week.

Our winter visitors from the Arctic Circle, Rough-legged Hawks. The French name for our winter hawks is Buse pattue, the scientific community recognizes them as Buteo lagopus, while birders know them as ...

A Line in the Snow: Factions of Central Oregon's outdoor community oppose a new snow park Piled in a binder at the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District office are more than 700 letters and printed e-mails. They come ...

The hot springs at Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge. When I took on the project of listing the 150 best places in Oregon, I told a friend I was having trouble finding at least one place for every county.

To comment on the travel management plan, write to Mollie Chaudet, Deschutes National Forest, 1001 S.W. Emkay Drive, Bend, OR 97702.

The Washington Territory, which included Idaho, was split off in 1853. 5. Oregon City and Corvallis 6. Slavery.

The U.S. Forest Service is proposing to designate almost 150 miles of off-highway vehicle trails south of Bend, in preparation for a change in policy that will limit motorized vehicles to designated trails, ...

Editor's note: After the Nov. 17 death of longtime Bulletin outdoors writer Jim Witty, the newspaper received the following tributes from readers.