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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 ...
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 ...
The Mt. Hood National Forest issued an updated Closure Order for the Eagle Creek Fire Area Friday.The order reduces the size of the closure area from 54,892 acres to 40,354 acres.Forest Service ...
Publisher’s note: We’ve covered the Timberline MTB Park several times since the project became public in April 2010. Last week I was contacted by a member of Bark, a Mt. Hood Forest watchdog group ...
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 ...