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All Tillamook, Clatsop State Forest campgrounds reopening by Memorial Day weekend

The Gales Creek Campground. Photo: Chas Hundley The Oregon Department of Forestry has announced that all campgrounds in the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests will have reopened by Memorial Day weekend, with the last few stragglers opening Thursday, May 27.  Joining campgrounds opened throughout the last few weeks are Brown’s[Read More…]

Dispatches from history: Western Washington County 100 years ago: May 12, 1921

The newspapers and other print jobs of the time would have been printed on this type of machine. Photo taken from April 28, 1921 edition of the Washington County News-Times. Clips come from the May 12, 1921 edition of the Washington County News-Times. Our thanks to the Forest Grove City[Read More…]

Oregon Senate Bill 868 would strip Board of Forestry of power to appoint state forester

Peter Daugherty (center) during a Salmonberry Trail Intergovernmental Agency meeting on August 4, 2017 in Grand Ronde. Photo: Chas Hundley A bill introduced in the Oregon Senate on Wednesday, May 19 by a bipartisan group of senators would strip the Oregon Board of Forestry of their statutory power to appoint[Read More…]

Oregon Board of Forestry to seek new State Forester following Peter Daugherty’s resignation

Peter Daugherty (center) during a Salmonberry Trail Intergovernmental Agency meeting on August 4, 2017 in Grand Ronde. Photo: Chas Hundley The Oregon Board of Forestry will meet Thursday, May 20 to discuss the appointment of an interim State Forester and a recruitment process to select a permanent replacement for State[Read More…]

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