The Oregon Department of Forestry closed the North Fork Wolf Creek Shooting Lanes in the Tillamook State Forest this week to tackle maintenance and fire prevention work at the site.
Ninety-two years ago on Aug. 14, 1933 a logging crew at the end of a railroad spur in the upper reaches of the Gales Creek Watershed sparked a wildfire. That spark became the Tillamook Burn.
The Oregon Department of Forestry is raising fire danger from moderate to high Monday in NW-02 and NW-03, the eastern and central portions of the Tillamook Forest and surrounding areas, including in and near Timber, Buxton, Manning, Hayward and Banks.
The Oregon Department of Forestry announced that fire season will be declared Monday, July 11 at 1 a.m. in the Northwest Oregon Forest Protective Association region, which stretches from northern Yamhill County to Astoria and from near Forest Grove to the Pacific Ocean.
The Game Hog Creek Fire, July 22 2021. Photo: Chas Hundley
Fire season ended in the last of the 16 million acres of Oregon forestland protected by the Oregon Department
Image courtesy ODF
Those with artistic skill and a vision for “keeping Oregon free of wildfire” can enter a billboard poster art contest launched June 1 by Keep Oregon Green
The elk that killed Mark David. Photo: OSP
A Hillsboro man has died after an elk he wounded while archery hunting gored him to death.
According to the Oregon State
Monday's wildfire. Photo: ODF
TILLAMOOK FOREST - The wildfire season is here a bit early, with six acres burning on private forestland in the Tillamook Forest on Monday.
