The presentation and agenda for the 2016 aviation cooperators meeting is now available. Please contact Jesse Blair (541) 664-3328 or Steve Wetmore (541) 474-3152 if you have an questions. Click HERE for the agenda. Click HERE for the presentation. Click HERE for the...

For anyone looking to go to the woods this spring, work on fires in the summer, or hunt during the fall there is a map just for you. Fully offline and available for most of Oregon you can use them with any device with the free PDF Maps application. Feel free to visit...

A wildfire approximately 7 acres in size is burning through logging slash on Horse Mtn., located in northwestern Jackson County approximately 8 miles west of Shady Cove (33S, 3W, Sec. 24). The logging slash is green and the fire is burning downhill on a NE aspect...

Preventing summer wildfires and protecting your home often starts in the spring when fire danger is traditionally low and the warm weather lends to working outside. Spring is the perfect time to clean up around the home and discard piles of yard debris safely and...

The Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest's Medford Interagency Communications Center (MICC) will officially change its name to the Rogue Valley Interagency Communications Center (RVICC) on April 1, 2016. This date was picked in order to provide adequate time to...

So, just how severe was Oregon’s wildfire season this summer? About 838,000 gallons’ worth, according to Neal Laugle, the Department of Forestry’s (ODF) aviation unit manager. That’s how much liquid retardant the department’s air tankers dumped on fires in 2015. And...

Need a map to go look at Christmas lights this year? I have made up a mobile friendly version that will work in Google Maps. Thanks to the Mail Tribune for assembling all these. Click Here for the Mobile Map!!! Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.  

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announces funding available to help private non-industrial forest landowners in the Ashland watershed reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfire and improve the overall health of their forests.Eligible landowners...

Oregon experienced a significant increase in wildfires over the past several years. Not only have these fires increased damages and costs to Oregon’s forests, landowners, and local communities but they have stretched the state’s “complete and coordinated fire...

In 2015, a witches’ brew of drought, hot weather and dry lightning spawned more than 2,000 wildfires across Oregon that consumed some 631,000 acres of forest and rangeland. In a massive coordinated effort, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) and its local and...

Gusty winds on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 31, pushed several burning piles of debris into wildfires. The largest wildfire was the 55-acre Dunn Butte Fire, south of Ashland near Hwy 66. Other fires included:A 12-acre fire near Cloverlawn Drive, between Grants Pass and...

Rain has brought an end to fire season today on the Oregon Department of Forestry's Southwest Oregon District. All public regulated use and industrial fire prevention regulations have been terminated as of 7:00 a.m. today.The fire danger level is "low" (green).