Wallowa News

A year after the U.S. Forest Service shelved a plan to close thousands of miles of roads in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in northeastern Oregon, the plan remains in limbo.

The truck's tires on the driver's side were inches from the edge of a 1,000-foot dropoff, while the side-view mirror on the passenger side came pretty close to scraping a craggy rock wall.

JOSEPH, May 22, 2013 -- The Wallowa County Farmers' Market launches the 2013 season with its traditional Spring Planting Festival Saturday in downtown Joseph.

The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest has released the most detailed document yet, examining the public's reaction to last year's hastily withdrawn proposal to ban motor vehicles on more than 3,000 miles of forest roads.

The Wallowa Mountain Loop Road is open to two-way traffic, though on-going maintenance continues to take place.

Forest Road 39, also known as the Wallowa Mountain Loop and part of the Hells Canyon National Scenic Byway, is open.

Baker County has been adding jobs over the past year, and the average pay per job has risen as well.

Not so often do you hear about trails with rails. But that is the dream - a trail along the Joseph Branch rail line between Elgin and Joseph.

Emilie Montgomery-Jones and Scilla Coe, both of La Grande, ride along with a cattle drive on the Grande Tour Scenic Bikeway Saturday east of Baker City.

In win-crazed America, where the overriding philosophy seems to be win or go home, in the land of old Green Bay Packers football coach Vince Lombardi where winning is the only thing, even being No.

In today's litigious society, it's no surprise that La Grande's biggest parade of the year, the Ag-Timber Parade, is in danger of going away.

Monica Hill and Scott Spears will vie for position number three. Hill is a registered nurse at Grande Ronde Hospital, and Spears is the chief financial officer for the Blue Mountain Recovery Center.

ENTERPRISE A German dinner featuring Oregon Alpenfest's official bratwurst and sauerkraut will be served May 9 as a fundraiser for Calli Miller of Wallowa, the Rotary Club of Wallowa County's 2013-14 exchange student.

Each year I go through a period of doubt that the trees will ever blossom and leaf out - so when they do, I am in awe.

Ranchers grazing on public land under suit the past two years can continue business as usual while the U.S. Forest Service reworks its environmental analyses on Wallowa-Whitman and Umatilla national forest allotments.