An Oregon Department of Forestry helicopter stages at the Hornshuh Creek Fire Station in Buxton. Photo: Oregon Department of Forestry What the Oregon Department of Forestry is now calling the Game Hog Creek Fire in the Tillamook State Forest continues to burn at around six acres, though fire crews are[Read More…]
Tillamook State Forest
Tillamook Forest Center to remain closed through most of summer
The Tillamook Forest Center. Photo: Chas Hundley The Tillamook Forest Center will remain closed until at least September. The Oregon Department of Forestry-owned and operated facility and property, located along the Wilson River in the heart of the Tillamook State Forest, closed in 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns. “To help[Read More…]
Fire season in local region will begin Tuesday, June 22
A “Super Scooper” plane fights the Powerline Fire near Cherry Grove. Photo taken from ODF video Fire season in this corner of Oregon will begin Tuesday, June 22 at 1 a.m. In a June 16 email signed by the three Oregon Department of Forestry district foresters for the Forest Grove,[Read More…]
All Tillamook, Clatsop State Forest campgrounds reopening by Memorial Day weekend
The Gales Creek Overlook in the Tillamook State Forest. File photo: Chas Hundley//Banks Post The Oregon Department of Forestry has announced that all campgrounds in the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests will have reopened by Memorial Day weekend, with the last few stragglers opening Thursday, May 27. Joining campgrounds opened[Read More…]
Tillamook, Clatsop State Forest recreational sites begin to reopen
The Four County Point Trailhead on May 10, 2021. Photo: Chas Hundley Several campsites and recreation areas in the Tillamook State Forest are reopening after an extended closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Oregon Department of Forestry. The Tillamook State Forest’s recreation team moved forward on May[Read More…]
Escaped South Fork Forest Camp inmate arrested
Jedaiah Lunn. Photo courtesy DOC A man who walked away from a South Fork Forest Camp work crew near the Gales Creek Campground on Wednesday, April 14 is back in custody. Jedaiah Lunn walked away from his work crew on Wednesday around 2:30 p.m., and was implicated in an assault[Read More…]
South Fork Forest Camp inmate escapes custody near Gales Creek Campground
South Fork Forest Camp entrance in November 2017. Photo: Chas Hundley 4/15 5:50 a.m. update: Lunn is back in custody, according to the DOC. A South Fork Forest Camp inmate walked away from a work crew near the Gales Creek Campground Wednesday around 2:30 p.m., the Oregon Department of Corrections[Read More…]
ODF seeks to create clarity, rules when closing state forestland
The Wilson River near the Tillamook Forest Center. Photo: Chas Hundley The Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) initiated its administrative rulemaking process to create a permanent rule for implementing state forest closures, and to update an existing rule to include language clarifying that parking fees are not the same as[Read More…]
Washington County received $8.8 million from Tillamook Forest timber revenue in 2020
The Tillamook Forest Center. Photo: Chas Hundley The Oregon Department of Forestry issued an annual report that shows revenue from timber operations in the Tillamook State Forest to Tillamook, Washington and Columbia County totals $31.4 in revenue in the 2020 fiscal year. Of that pool, Washington County and local districts[Read More…]
Fire season ends in NW Oregon forests
Banks Fire District Water Tender 14 responds to a field fire in Gales Creek on Tuesday, August 18. Photo: Chas Hundley The official fire season ended Monday, October 12 in this portion of NW Oregon, bringing to an official close a season unlike any other in recent history in Oregon. [Read More…]
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