It’s a mixed bag in the Detroit Lake. Two popular recreation areas have reopened for the summer while early summer delays on Highway 46, and 150 miles of Forest Service road closures, are still in ...

The Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center, now closed, is located about 50 miles east of Salem, Oregon. Dwayne Canfield, the group’s interim director, says this is his first hike into the property ...

"Opal Creek is an Oregon and Salem treasure." As a child, Atiyeh spent much of his time romping through the temperate rainforest at Jawbone Flats, a mining camp owned by his great uncle Jim ...

Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center is a private 501 ... The location is the west slope of the Cascade Mountains upstream from Mehama, off Oregon 22 east of Salem.

Foot bridge over Opal Creek, Oregon Courtesy of Patrick M. via Flickr A look down at Opal Creek Courtesy of Bill Reynolds via Flickr A visitor exploring the verdant, ancient Opal Creek Wilderness ...

Opal Creek remains closed ... like we’re seeing now more common,” Erica Fleishman, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, told The Oregonian/OregonLive in September.

An Oregon timber company has sued the U.S. Forest ... The Beachie Creek Fire originated in the Opal Creek Wilderness, located in in Marion County, Ore., in mid-August 2020, most likely ignited ...

So how did a relatively small fire, smoldering in the Oregon wilderness for weeks turn ... On August 16, a small plume of smoke could be seen in the Opal Creek Wilderness, 75 miles east of Salem.