Ryan Brennecke / The BulletinYoleen Faerber removes a geocache from its hiding spot, above, near Horse Ridge east of Bend on Wednesday. As a geocacher for about a decade, Yoleen Faerber of Bend ...

Federal appeals judges have told the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to take another look at its plans for about 4.5 million acres in Eastern Oregon ... as wilderness areas.As a result, the ...

BEND, Ore. – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is trying to get geocaches removed from wilderness and environmentally sensitive areas in Central Oregon. Geocaches are the containers at the end ...

The settlement required BLM to survey its southeast Oregon land that didn’t have wilderness protections, and then map out areas that are wild and natural enough for potential protections.

Back in 2012, the national BLM issued a policy prohibiting placement of physical geocaches in areas designated as wilderness by Congress ... of the cities of central Oregon.

Some of Oregon’s most colorful hills ... He said the designation would boost tourism in the area. The proposed wilderness area is currently managed by the BLM, and is an active livestock grazing ...

Out of the other top 20 trails with interactive maps, three are in Oregon ... BLM’s recreation maps that provide interactive navigation for some of the nation’s most visited conservation areas.

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Oregon's Bureau of Land Management ... the wilderness, or properly analyze grazing and off-road vehicle use. It urged the government to reevaluate its 1998 assessment of ...

The original Oregon Wildlands Act included two large National Recreation Areas around ... lands that deserve Wilderness protections. At the same time, the Bureau of Land Management has over ...

Renee Patrick, a small-business owner, hiker, and steward of the Oregon Desert Trail, said the area ... The BLM's amendment will consider a wide range of oversight options for lands with ...

The Forest Service and BLM would be allowed to charge day fees for entry to national conservation areas ... reporting pro-wilderness stories, however, would get a free pass. As Oregon's Sen.