Outdoors

Fischer Schluessler traveled most of the way across America to hunt mountain goats in Baker County.

The thermometer is the customary instrument for detecting the passage of one season to the next, but I’ve often found that the wind tells the more compelling tale.

Wes Morgan isn’t thrilled by the prospect of slogging through snow before the calendar flips from September to October.

The elk: a great runner, an eater-upper of rough terrain, a beast that knits the Blue/Wallowa Mountain country together in its yearly rounds — summering in the high parklands and meadows, wint…

The Herculean Camping Loop is a seven-day, 292-mile road cycling adventure through a wide range of ecosystems and summits. Each day covers between 16 and 58 miles of isolated pavement and conc…

There is an advantage to hiking in conditions that approximate the inside of a refrigerator, only with wind gusts and rain showers, neither of which is common inside a properly functioning kit…

Some of the more memorable climbs I’ve made in the mountains brought me to low ground rather than high.

As we watched mountain goats saunter across nearly sheer rock, frolic on snowdrifts and crop alpine wildflowers, I had a sudden and almost painful hankering for an elephant ear.

It was the hottest day of the year and my throat felt the way I imagine it would feel if I had recently swallowed a sheet of sandpaper.

A mountain stream is the artistic virtuoso of the natural world.

NORTH POWDER — Dan Marvin stands beside a chest-high bale of alfalfa hay and gazes west to the dark forest at the base of the Elkhorn Mountains, where the hungry beasts wait.

The forests that grace Northeastern Oregon are filled with fragrant Christmas gifts — and no fancy ribbons or bows to fiddle with.

Jason Hamasu didn’t want to merely act like an Oregon Trail pioneer, he wanted to smell like one too.

JOSEPH — For the third summer, a massive green mammoth will greet visitors as they drive into Joseph — the icon of Wallowa County’s science discovery center, Wallowology.

The cold and rainy weather didn’t deter sixth-grade students from learning about what’s around them during their Outdoors School Friday afternoon put on by the Blue Mountain Conservancy.

Joseph paraglider Todd Weigand waited 10 years for the right weather for the flight he took July 31.

A lot has changed at Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area during the past two decades, a reality that is just fine in the eyes of David Larson and David Bronson.

It had been so long since theLa Grande area hosted a state tournament that most local archers couldn't remember the last one. With the Oregon Bow Hunters state 3-D championships July 18 and 19…

ENTERPRISE - A historic Wallowa County lookout tower was named among Oregon's latest entries in the National Register of Historic Places.

ENTERPRISE - Despite what looked like a good spring Chinook run, salmon fishing in Wallowa County was a bust this year. Hampered by high water temperatures, the fish wouldn't bite.

Archers from the Grande Ronde Bowmen enjoyed a number of superb showings at the Oregon Bowhunters State Field Archery Championships June 27 and 28. It was the second leg of the OBH Triple Crow…

The Enterprise/La Grande team of the Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division was recently recognized for its work in the field with the 2014 "Team of the Year" award.