Food-to-go is great, especially in pandemic times, but it creates a lot of packaging waste. “Rogue To Go” takes care of that by offering reusable containers. Buy in for a one-time $10 fee, then you’re set to go at any of 10 participating eateries in Ashland and Medford.
Approximately 80 dead and dying pine trees will be removed near the Red Queen Trailhead starting Monday, March 14, the City of Ashland has announced. A western pine beetle infestation in trees to the southeast of the intersection of Ashland Loop Road and Terrace Street has killed or is killing the trees.
Ashland Fire & Rescue will be able to double its capacity for reducing forest fuels through controlled burns in the coming year and a half, thanks to state funding publicly announced today, Feb. 14.
Rachel Smith, the Klamath National Forest’s supervisor, is offering her “heartfelt thanks” to those who questioned Forest Service plans to pave Forest Road 20 near Mount Ashland. She said forest managers incorrectly believed the road, which extends from the Mount Ashland Campground to the Grouse Gap Shelter, was already paved.
A lawsuit filed in federal court claims the Forest Service plans to pave forest roads southwest of Mount Ashland, including a spur leading to its peak.
A massive revegetation effort is underway at the 22-acre Ashland Pond open space area on the north side of town after the Almeda Fire burned the area.
Ashland, a historical hotbed of both the logging industry and environmental activism, has become an unlikely success story. Since 2010, the partners carrying out Ashland’s plan — the Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project — have thinned trees and brush from nearly 15,000 acres and conducted controlled burns on 1,500 acres.
A changing climate means wine grape growers will likely have to adapt what varietals they grow to higher temperatures.
Thousands of railroad ties are stacked in an Ashland neighborhood due to “constraints in the supply chain,” according to the railroad. After neighbors complained about the creosote odor and an inquiry from a state legislator, the railroad has promised to move the ties.
We’re not here to debate the science. According to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communications, 97% of climate scientists conclude that climate change is real. It’s caused by burning fossil fuels. The effects are mostly bad. And it’s going to get worse if we don’t do more about it quickly.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival announced Monday the nonprofit’s six on-screen film lineup as a documentary showcase coming April 14-20 to the Varsity Theatre. Each Varsity feature will be paired with a short documentary directed by a local filmmaker.
Oregon drivers who for decades have been banned from touching gas pumps could soon have the right to fuel their own cars, under a bill the state House overwhelmingly approved Monday.
After announcing last week that the ski-snowboarding area broken its all-time season attendance record, Mt. Ashland Ski Area managers announced Sunday that its season has been extended to April 23, adding two weekends on to a schedule that typically would have ended on April 9.
During a visit to Central Point Sunday, Deb Haaland, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, announced $21 million was on its way to Oregon to help reduce the risk of wildfires. Joining her were U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, and Mike Shaw, chief of fire protection at ODF.
A procession celebrating spring wound its way from the ice rink on Winburn Way to the Ashland Plaza on Saturday afternoon, drawing an estimated 150 participants with a like number of spectators.
Reader photos: Carlyle Stout of Ashland took these photos in Lithia Park after the last storm on March 1.
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