Aug. 29—Forest Service officials are monitoring five lightning-sparked fires in the Eagle Cap Wilderness with the intention of letting the blazes burn naturally. The agency has employed that strategy ...

The Wallowa Mountains, Oregon's "Little Switzerland," are most often viewed from the surrounding valleys. For a bird's-eye view from the center of the Eagle Cap Wilderness Area , make the 19.6-mile ...

Sep. 6—The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest has temporarily closed two swathes of the Eagle Cap Wilderness, including sections of several trails, as two lightning fires continue to burn. Wallowa County ...

BAKER CITY — Nathan Goodrich has no problem letting the combination of a lightning bolt and summer heat do part of his work. This particular task involves reintroducing wildfire, and its multiple ...

This item has a permanent location under the Hiking category on the right side of the Outdoors home page. See it with a full color map by Oregonian artist Steve Cowden. The Wallowa Mountains, Oregon's ...

Shaped by persistent wind and snow, subalpine fir and whitebark pine trees in the Eagle Cap Wilderness near Maxwell Lake show grit as they gain tenuous footholds. I met “Maxine” on the third of six ...

Brook trout have been cooked over the coals at campsites beside alpine lakes in the Eagle Cap Wilderness for many decades. But the tasty trout, despite the thousands of meals they’ve supplied to ...

Brook trout have been cooked over the coals at campsites beside alpine lakes in the Eagle Cap Wilderness for many decades. But the tasty trout, despite the thousands of meals they’ve supplied to ...

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — A large swath of Oregon wilderness that was recently purchased by a private organization will be kept open to the public. The East Oregonian reports that the 470-acre property ...

Sept. 3 of this year marked the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. On that day 60 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act of 1964 into law, officially creating the ...