Wallowa News

The fire lookout at Hat Point on the rim of Hells Canyon, where a massive trail maintenance program will take place in 2010-11. The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest is embarking on its most ambitious trail-maintenance campaign in years.

An old growth stand of Ponderosa pine near Sisters that has been treated by thinning and fire.

Geese rise over Wallowa Lake at sunset last week, a serene counterpoint to a bitter fight over who should fight fires in the area.

Clifford R. Tracy of Gold Hill was sentenced to a year's probation this illegal mine along Sucker Creek in southwest Oregon.

Alta Dollie Winters Anderson, of Estacada, died early Friday morning, Nov. 13, 2009, at Marquis Respite Care in Oregon City, Ore., of cancer.

First-grader Nessa Copley flaps her wings as she becomes part of the storytelling Friday at Brooklyn Primary School.

Estacada resident, Barbara Haggerty, died at her home Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. She was 80.

The Wallowa County District Attorney's office today identified the man shot and killed by sheriff's deputies on Wednesday at a campground in northeastern Oregon as Roy S. Bass, 52.

Wallowa County sheriff's deputies were involved in a fatal shooting Wednesday afternoon after an armed man "menaced" U.S. Forest Service Employees.

The search is on for 2-year-old Colin Matthew Remacle, who was reported missing this week, and is believed to be with his father, 39-year-old Charles Remacle, whose whereabouts are unknown.

Baker City, OR . On Friday, October 2 at 8:00 a.m., the Deer Creek Road up Big Canyon, Forest Road 8270, will open for public access to the Cougar Ridge Trailhead.

ALL AGES 21+ ALL AGES Dante's 1 SW 3rd Ave. 21+ 21+ 21+ ALL AGES 21+ Comment on the "Venues A-H" article Wednesday 9/16 Listings WW STAFF Will Sheff and Damien Jurado kick things off in dark, literary style.

A group of friends re-create the '08 tour through the scenic northeast corner -- serious hill climbs, friendly towns and all -- but with a Support Subaru and lots more comfort Greg Lee, Cycle Oregon From sunlight-dappled foothills to the majestic Wallowa Mountains, the views in northeastern Oregon are spectacular.

Two fires ignited by lightning last Saturday in a remote area of the Eagle Cap Wilderness were burning actively Wednesday afternoon.

LAGRANDE, Ore. - Nearby workers rescued an 18-year-old LaGrande, Ore., man after he swatted one bee and was swarmed by others that stung him more than 200 times.

BAKER CITY, Ore. - A U.S. Forest Service employee is dead after being struck by a falling tree as he helped clean up a marijuana growing operation in eastern Oregon.

Eleven tags for the Rocky Mountain goat are available for Oregon's 2009 hunting season.

Eleven tags for the Rocky Mountain goat are available for Oregon's 2009 hunting season.

Enterprise, OR. Suppression efforts continue on course for the 222-acre Cougar Ridge Fire located near the Eagle Cap Wilderness boundary and 12 miles south of Wallowa.

BAKER CITY, Ore. - The U.S. Forest Service and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife released 18 Rocky Mountain goats in the Umatilla National Forest last month as part of an effort to establish a population there.