OWYHEE CANYONLANDS, Ore.—Drive 50 miles from Boise, Idaho, past the suburbs, exurbs and farms into Oregon, and you’ll find yourself in the largest conservation opportunity left in the continental U.S.

Gov. Tina Kotek threw her support behind the latest movement to establish a national monument in southeast Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands. Kotek’s support is the latest in a chorus of voices from ...

Prominently placed billboards and a flurry of direct-mail pieces are alerting Portlanders to a hot-button Oregon political issue—almost 500 miles away in Malheur County. The aim of the campaign, ...

Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands might be defined by its remoteness, but what truly sets this eastern Oregon wilderness apart is its otherworldly beauty and surprising diversity of recreational ...

The Owyhee Canyonlands are in remote southeastern Oregon and include Leslie Gulch Tuff, which is rhyolite ash that erupted 15.5 million years ago. (Bob Bush/Getty Images) A proposal to protect the ...

Author Bonnie Olin will discuss her book on the canyons of the Owyhee River at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 N.W. Monroe Ave. Olin has published “Owyhee River ...

The River Fire was discovered at 2:18 p.m. on Wednesday prompting a swift response from firefighters, a shelter in place warning at Camp Hycliff and then an evacuation order from the canyon. 27,473 ...

A push to preserve more than a million acres of wildlands in Eastern Oregon is taking on new urgency in the final months of the Biden presidency, as environmentalists and political leaders from ...

As an avid lover of Oregon’s natural wonders, I was thrilled to read the travel article about Oregon’s environmental diversity, (“14 Oregon spots that look like they’re from another planet,” May 8).

Oregon is a state known for its spectacular natural scenery. People flock to this corner of the Pacific Northwest to explore its secret beaches, bucolic valleys, under-the-radar lakes, volcanic peaks, ...