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Changes to the U.S. Forest Service’s national and Northwest forest plans should protect more old-growth trees from wildfire and climate change.

C’waam and Koptu are intertwined in the Klamath Tribes’ culture. But poor water quality has made Upper Klamath Lake lethal for juvenile fish.

On Thursday, the environmental nonprofit submitted its legal petition for protection under the Endangered Species Act to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Environmental groups are poised to return to court in an ongoing legal battle with the Biden administration over a lithium mine near the Oregon-Nevada border.

A plan to protect threatened and endangered species in Oregon’s Western state forests by limiting some logging will move forward for now, despite a recent attempt to make last-minute changes that could have further delayed it.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Hallman on Thursday found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Forest Management Act and the Endangered Species Act.

A coastal plant that’s been hammered by invasive species and recreational vehicles has won federal protection after years of pressure from environmental groups.

Decades of data show that despite billions in taxpayer investment, salmon and steelhead hatchery programs and restoration projects in the Columbia River Basin have failed to support or boost native fish populations and in fact are contributing to their decline.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking input on the potential reintroduction of the threatened southern sea otter to the Oregon and Northern California coast.

In 2020, a nonprofit environmental group focused on biodiversity petitioned federal authorities to protect a bug-eyed beetle that used to thrive on West Coast beaches but now only exists in certain sites, mainly in Oregon.

The first documented outbreak of avian flu in California condors in the Southwest is alarming groups trying to reintroduce this critically endangered bird in Humboldt County.

A federal regulatory group voted Thursday to officially close king salmon fishing season along much of the West Coast after near-record low numbers of the fish, also known as Chinook, returned to California’s rivers last year.