The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is trying to eradicate nonnative brook trout from Bear Lake, in the northern Wallowa Mountains, to protect bull trout, a federally threatened species, in ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is trying to eradicate nonnative brook trout from Bear Lake, in the northern Wallowa Mountains, to protect bull trout, a federally threatened species, in ...

Sited near the deepest canyon in North America and a 2.4 million-acre national forest, this small city is a charming base ...

The Morgan Nesbit plan borders, but doesn’t infringe upon, Oregon’s beloved Eagle Cap Wilderness. (Photo courtesy of Joseph COC) The Morgan Nesbit plan borders, but doesn’t infringe upon, Oregon’s ...

The early onset of severe fire danger has convinced U.S. Forest Service fire managers to try to douse, rather than merely monitor, a lightning-sparked blaze in the Eagle Cap Wilderness. But the risk ...

This Aug. 20, 2016 photo, from the trail just below Horton Pass, shows two of the major drainages in the Eagle Cap Wilderness Near Joseph, Ore. The East Fork of the Lostine River is shown at left and ...

Six members of the Union County Search and Rescue team used a one-wheel cart to transport a hiker who injured her ankle in the Eagle Cap Wilderness on Monday evening, July 3. The rescuers also had to ...

A map shows both wilderness areas created by the signing of the Wilderness Act in 1964, along with newer areas created since (in light green). Sept. 3 of this year marked the 60th anniversary of the ...

The East Moraine hike seems too good to be true. In an area already replete with incredible outdoor destinations – the Eagle Cap Wilderness, Zumwalt Prairie, Hells Canyon and Wallowa Lake itself – it ...

There are mountain ranges, and then there are exceptional mountain ranges such as the Sawtooths of Idaho, the Tetons of Wyoming, and the Wallowas of northeastern Oregon. Located 200 miles south of ...