The decision opens up 67 trails in the Deschutes National Forest to Class 1 pedal assist e-bike riders, but not until April ...

The Deschutes National Forest has finalized its plan to allow Class 1, pedal-assist e-bikes on most than 160 miles of ...

BEND — Chris Daggett spent the night of April 30 and the morning of May 1 attempting to pull out as many friends and neighbors as possible from the China Hat homeless camp south of Bend. With the ...

Following a delay caused by the recent government shutdown, the U.S. Forest Service approved a plan to allow Class 1 ...

Electric bikes have exploded in popularity in recent years. Now the Deschutes National Forest says it’s time to consider allowing more of them on its trails. Forest officials are considering ...

After the spotted owl controversy of the 1980s, the Forest Service lost its social license to log public forests to subsidize the private timber industry. Searching for a new justification for logging ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Deschutes National Forest was conducting more than 250 acres of prescribed burn operations Thursday on the Bend-Fort Rock, Crescent and Sisters ranger districts, as well as a ...

A wilderness ranger sits at the Green Lakes Trailhead in the Deschutes National Forest in this 2015 file photo. Several campgrounds in the forest will be closed over the Memorial Day weekend. Several ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Several campsite openings in Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest have been delayed ahead of Memorial Day weekend after lingering snowpack stalled preseason maintenance and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — U.S. Forest Service firefighters will light a 3.5-acre fire in the Deschutes National Forest at noon on Tuesday as part of a training exercise for the upcoming wildfire season.

A large-scale forest restoration project near Bend is planned to start in May, cutting off some 34,600 acres of the Deschutes National Forest for at least a year. The Cabin Butte Vegetation Management ...

The Deschutes National Forest covers a whopping 1.6 million acres of public land mostly to the west of Bend along the eastern slope of the Cascades and includes wilderness areas that stretch from ...