Wildlife everywhere faces a growing challenge: moving safely across an increasingly fragmented landscape. Roads, urban ...

The state tried to link building codes to hazardous areas, provoking a yearslong backlash from rural communities.

Almost immediately after the state released its wildfire map, people in rural areas of Oregon began to criticize it. Looking back, Golden said he sees three roots of that backlash. 1.

In February 2025, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek paused referrals for wildfire hazard map appeals amid calls from state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to repeal the maps altogether. Now ...

A groundbreaking study led by Oregon State University scientists shows that multiple Portland neighborhoods have levels of noise that are likely ...

Related: An architect of Oregon’s wildfire map on why he now supports repealing it The building and so-called defensible space provisions impacted 6% of the state’s roughly 1.9 million tax ...

The Oregon House voted Tuesday to repeal a controversial wildfire hazard map and home-hardening requirements that accompanied it. Rural Oregonians and their representatives in the Legislature had ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday repealing the state’s controversial wildfire hazard maps. Senate Bill 83 repeals the maps and directs state ...

Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state’s contentous wildfire hazard map, which subjected homeowners in certain areas at high risk of wildfires to stricter building codes.