PORTLAND, Ore. — This week’s rapidly rising temperatures could create especially hazardous conditions on Mount Hood, the U.S. Forest Service Mt. Hood Climbing Rangers warn.Six avalanches were ...

But Mount Hood's main environmental watchdog group is fighting it, charging the Forest Service with using thinning as cover for potentially destructive logging.

The U.S. Forest Service has announced that starting in 2024, people climbing Mount Hood’s highest elevations must first obtain a permit. The permit will only be required for those traversing ...

As originally envisioned when proposed to the Forest Service in a 2005 agreement between Hood River County, the residents committee and Mount Hood Meadows, the swap involved 120 acres of federal ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Mount Hood Climbing Rangers with the U.S. Forest Service are warning mountain climbers that a seasonal crevasse has opened up near Mount Hood’s south summit. The 30 ...

By Justin Andress The Mountain Times For nearly 10 years, the Still Creek Bridge has been out of commission. But no longer.

A new wildfire that broke out southeast of Mt. Hood on Saturday afternoon has burned over 60 acres in a steep, heavily forested area, prompting the evacuation of several campgrounds and closure of ...

MT HOOD, Ore. — It’s getting harder to find solitude, let alone parking, around Oregon’s Mt. Hood and the Columbia River Gorge. Millions of visitors each year flock to the areas, on the ...

Fight for Mt Hood. PORTLAND, Ore. — After decades of wrangling and 13 years after Congress ordered a public-private land swap to protect the north side of Mt. Hood forever, the U.S. Forest Service has ...

Environmentalists are fighting a planned timber sale north of Mt. Hood. Local watchdog environmentalists are pushing back against a planned timber sale north of Mt. Hood. BARK has been biting at ...