For insight into the reality of the wildfires, the St. Helens, OR Chronicle spoke with OSU Department of Forestry professors John D. Bailey and Meg Krawchuk.

Researchers are keeping an eye on the health of the McKenzie River, which flows through the middle of it all.

The rebuilding of communities hit hard by recent wildfires — from affluent and urban Napa, California, to rural and economically challenged Detroit, Oregon — will be as varied as the communities themselves, a panel of wildfire experts at Oregon State University told journalists from around the st

Squeezed by changing ocean conditions that limit their food options and the long-term loss of old forest needed for nesting, marbled murrelets would benefit most from conservation efforts that take both ocean and forest into account, new research by Oregon State University shows.