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Oregon's drought is at its lowest levels since 2019, with 30% of the state listed as "abnormally dry" and 8.5% listed in "moderate drought." The multiyear drought that has gripped Oregon is at its ...
The parking lot at Walling Pond, a popular fishing spot in southeast Salem on private property, was recently closed off due to an increase in the unhoused population living there.
Oregon’s snow and water supply is in good shape as the weather turns warm and sunny over the next week. The latest storm boosted the state’s mountain snowpack to 109% of normal and continued ...
This stocking produced a decade of good trout fishing. In 1922, the Oregon State Game Commission (a predecessor to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife) stocked the lake with largemouth bass, black crappie, bluegill, yellow perch, warmouth, pumpkinseed sunfish, brown bullheads, carp, and perhaps suckers. The yellow perch quickly became ...
On February 12, 2001 Oregon Health Department issued a mercury-related health advisory for fish caught in the reservoir. [6] [7] However, municipal water from the reservoir was deemed safe to drink, and the mercury posed no threat to recreational activities in the lake. Mercury levels in the fish were not expected to diminish in the foreseeable ...
Lost Lake is a shallow closed-basin lake in the Willamette National Forest [3] 29 kilometres (18 mi) southwest of Mount Jefferson and east of Santiam Junction, Oregon, United States. Geologically, much of the area surrounding the lake is lava bed created during a period of volcanic activity around 1000 BCE in the Cascade Range of Oregon . [ 4 ]
A winter weather advisory has been issued for around a foot of snow on Oregon’s Cascade mountain passes this weekend. The advisory lasts from 5 a.m. Saturday into 11 a.m. on Sunday.
This snow does not usually melt until mid-July, and allows for substantial glaciers on adjacent mountains. In the winter of 1949/1950 as much as 885.1 inches (22.48 m) of snow fell, while the less complete snow cover records show cover as high as 192 in or 4.88 m occurred during another particularly unsettled winter in 1981/1982. [27]