Monument News

A stone monument, set in a beautiful ponderosa pine forest 10 miles north of Bly in Klamath County, commemorates the only people killed in the mainland of America by enemy action during World War II.

The Long Creek-Kimberly Highway, or Oregon 42, stretches long and empty in remote northeast Oregon south of Pendleton.

Among the sagebrush and scrub trees that inhabit this portion of Eastern Oregon, it's easy to miss the aptly named Painted Hills.

It's not much of a hiking destination, but the Painted Hills Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is too beautiful to ignore.

The new Oregon Paleo Lands Institut e field center stands out bright next to Wheeler County's historic courthouse and the sturdy, comfortable homes that line the narrow streets.

The new field center for the Oregon Paleo Lands Institute will help the nonprofit organization reach more visitors and share its mission of promoting Oregon's geologic and natural history heritage.

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With wagons parked for the night and horses and mules turned out to pasture, the 12 people on the Oregon Statehood Wagon Train walked across the empty two-lane road toward supper.

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John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: www.nps.gov/joda / Oregon Paleo Lands Institute: The nonprofit group offers geologically-oriented information, tours and classes, www.paleolands.org It's nature's eye candy, a cluster of hills striped red, green, black and gold in the rugged near-desert of northeast Oregon.

Sierra Club hikes Saturday: Mount Bailey. Difficult 10-mile hike with a 3,130-foot elevation gain.

Oregon Department of Forestry Incident Management Team 1 was dispatched and assumed control of the McGinnis Creek Fire on Sunday, July 26, 2009.

'Caves and Caverns' by Gail Gibbons. Text and labeled illustrations describe the formation and physical features of various kinds of caves, with a brief section on spelunking.

An old-fashioned ice cream social featuring Oregon first lady Mary Oberst on Saturday kicks off a weekend celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the Oregon Caves National Monument.

Updated, 4:02 p.m. A wildfire has closed Highway 46 leading to the Oregon Caves National Monument, officials said.

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The new addition to the Lava Lands Visitor Center. Lava Lands Visitor Center , 10 miles south of Bend on U.S. 97, dedicated its new exhibits last week.

Storyteller Susan Strauss shares a tale about medicinal plants Saturday during the Lava Lands Visitor Center's reopening celebration and exhibit hall dedication at the facility south of Bend.

Oregon State Police released preliminary statistics about traffic enforcement, arrests for driving under the influence of intoxicants, crashes and deaths over the Memorial Day weekend.

A 5/24/2009 - Central Oregon A According to Oregon State Police, Tyler Boyer of Redmond was driving west on Highway 402 just outside of Monument in Grant county when he veered on to the gravel shoulder.