Do you know that the Cascade Range is also known as the Cascade Mountains or Cascadian Mountains? It extends for more than 1,100 kilometres and stretches from southern British Columbia through ...

U.S. Forest Service geologist Gordon Grant calls it a “geologic gift.” University of Oregon earth scientist Leif Karlstrom described it as “a big water tower” at the top of the mountains. The two ...

While studying the volcanic landscape of the Cascade Range north of the California border, Oregon scientists recently discovered something they did not expect: an aquifer containing much more water ...

New research led by a University of Oregon ecologist suggests that fire was historically more frequent in the Douglas fir ...

When I heard that eastern Oregon counties are thinking of joining Idaho, I wrote a letter to the editor of 12 eastern Oregon and eastern Washington newspapers suggesting that the citizens of those ...

A new study has found surprising evidence of large bodies of magma lurking beneath long-dormant volcanoes in the Cascade Range in the USA, with potentially huge implications for how geologists predict ...

A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades — possibly the largest aquifer of its kind in the U.S., according to researchers at the University ...

A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades — possibly the largest aquifer of its kind in the United States, according to researchers at the ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB The National Weather Service says rain and mountain snow are returning to the Pacific Northwest after a stretch of dry, sunny days. Up to eight inches of snow could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Morning Glory pool in Yellowstone national park. Yellowstone is underlain by two magma bodies. Michael Juhran/dpa Unlike old ...

ASHLAND, Ore. -- Landowners along state Route 66 through the Cascade Range say they have banded together to put more than 4,400 acres off-limits to cattle grazing. They have asked Jackson County ...