In the late 2010s, Michelle King worked at Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument to help restore a landscape transformed by natural disaster. She didn’t know it at the time, but the work ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks about plans to reopen beloved Opal Creek, the five year anniversary of the 2020 Labor Day Fires and traveling to Washington's ...

Five years after the devastating 2020 Beachie Creek fire, signs of life are returning to Oregon’s treasured Opal Creek wilderness. Wildfire filmmaker Ralph Bloemers set up trail cameras in the ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness gives an update on the fast-developing wildfire season in Oregon and then dives into how beloved places such as the Opal Creek area ...

Through their small-group backcountry expeditions, Opal Creek Expeditions bring youth ages ten through 17 and adults face-to-face with the outdoor places that make Oregon great—pristine mountain ...

A month and half after the Beachie Creek fire in 2020, Megan Selvig cried as she flew by helicopter over the Opal Creek natural area known by generations of Oregonians as a sanctuary of old-growth ...