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Environment

Environmental Watchdogs Bark at the Forest Service Over Proposed Mount Hood Logging

Activists with the environmental group Bark, who call themselves the “defenders of Mount Hood,” are challenging a 3,000-acre timber sale planned for the north side of the mountain....

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Land Swap Supporters Try Lawsuits, Mediation and a New Senate Bill to Revive a Stalled Project

Mt. Hood Meadows President Matthew Drake and his allies have been trying for years to complete an ambitious land deal that would protect more than 700 acres around Cooper Spur and make...

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Timberline-to-Troutdale Cleanup Days Target the Headwaters and the Confluence

The annual cleanup of the headwaters of the Salmon River on Mount Hood will be followed by an on-the-water cleanup of the lower Sandy River, a week later and 50 miles downstream, so if you...

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Seven Reasons Why Everyone is so Furious at the Forest Service over the Mt. Hood Land Exchange

Why is everyone so angry at the Forest Service these days? The federal agency with jurisdiction over Mount Hood and its glaciers, forests and streams is getting slammed by senators, sued by...

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Why Elon Musk’s Tesla Energy Foray could be a very good thing for the Future of Snow

Imagine a battery mounted on the side of your house that stores all of the energy generated by the solar panels on your roof, so you can use solar energy when the sun isn’t shining....

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The Below-Average Snow Pack on Mount Hood has Absolutely Nothing to Do with Portland’s Water Supply

There are many places in the world that can justifiably say they are struggling with drought this spring. Portland is not among those places....

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Mystery and Beauty keep the Sandy Glacier Cave Explorers of Mount Hood coming back for more

For Brent McGregor, the glacier caves of Mount Hood are a place of endless fascination....

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Really hate to bring it up but – can we maybe talk about climate change?

Midway between the heavy rainstorm that swamped Mount Hood on Saturday, Jan. 17 and the record-high heat of Sunday, Jan. 25, I took a midweek day off to make some turns with my 10-year-old...

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What would the ice cave think?

“Requiem of Ice,” the new film from Portland-based Uncage the Soul Productions, doesn’t just delve deep into the inner-most regions of the ice caves of Mount Hood’s...

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Environmental group attacks Timberline over the use of salt

It takes work for Timberline to maintain its status as the ski and snowboard resort with the longest-running snow season in North America. It also takes a lot of salt....

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