SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Oregon is one step closer to using a state forest to help capture and store more planet-warming greenhouse gases, and to fight climate change and earn money through the carbon ...

Oregon State University has produced a draft proposal for turning the Elliott State Forest in the Coos Bay area into a research forest. OSU already manages 15,000 acres of research forests across the ...

The 93,000-acre Elliott State Forest is in Coos and Douglas Counties. It was the first state forest established in Oregon. It is named after the state's first state forester, Francis Elliott. The ...

The HCP is Oregon’s first for public forest lands, and key as research forest operations begin. SALEM, Ore. – Oregon’s Elliott State Research Forest has achieved another major milestone and first for ...

Salem, Ore. — Recently, Senate Bill 147 A received a work session in the Joint Subcommittee on Natural Resources. Coastal Republicans, Representatives Boomer Wright (R-Coos Bay) and Court Boice ...

Oregon State University is being touted as a possible savior for the Elliott State Forest, but OSU officials are taking a cautious approach to the possibility of acquiring the hotly contested property ...

The Elliott State Forest near Coos Bay, managed by the Oregon Department of State Lands, is the largest research forest in the U.S. (Oregon State University) A lawyer, scientist and former manager at ...

SALEM — Opponents of the planned sale of an 82,500-acre swath of the Elliot State Forest to a private partnership are lobbying members of the State Land Board to change their vote and keep the forest ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A group of protesters concerned about global warming as well as protecting fish and wildlife habitat blocked loggers from a timber sale on the Elliott State Forest on Monday.

The Elliott State Forest is among the first state-owned forests in the western United States to be entered into a carbon market. (Ali Hansen/ Oregon Department of State Lands) Oregon is one step ...

Joe Metzler walks across a fallen log over a creek in the Silver Grove, which is surrounded by trees that are over 220 years old, in the Elliott State Forest near Reedsport in 2016. Oregon is one step ...