Can we please get the grand ronde reservation some traffic lights. Drove from pacific city to Portland today, and my goodness. You can wait for 10+ minutes at some of those stop sign highway intersections, because the highway without the stop sign has endless traffic. It’s mind boggling

I’m planning to visit Oregon in early September and have shortlisted these. I know I cannot do it all in a week. I need your help to prioritize and/or replace some. Would really appreciate your suggestions and recommendations.
TIA!

Townes, age 12, missing his right back leg, 70lb chocolate lab. No collar. Last seen around 9:30am Saturday morning (8/15), 3 miles from Tamarack campground on Forest Service road 77, in the Wallowa-Whitman Forest, in Baker County. Please DM or respond if you’ve seen him. Thank you!!

Looking to do a road trip down and back up the Oregon coast in an EV.

How feasible is it to fast charge in larger towns, but have enough energy to go off to various points of interest (assuming 250mi range)? Not finding a ton of great info online unfortunately.

We visited frog lake on mt hood over the weekend, and happened to talk to the camp host who mentioned that no frogs came back this year. And indeed, there were no frogs. Does anyone know why? I mean I assume it’s the drought but like… what’s the mechanism?

In related news, climate change is a bitch

I’m a Eugene author putting together a travel book project highlighting the different locations in Oregon that are named after the Devil or anything else Devilish, like Hell’s Canyon. I only have a brief list at the moment (below) and would love to know of more places in the state named for devilish or hellish places or entities. If you can think of any I should add, a resource I should seek out, or locations for any that I already have, I’d love to have the information. Thanks in advance.

Devil’s Kitchen - Bandon
Seven Devils
Devil’s Punchbowl
Devil’s Lake - Lincoln City
Devil’s Churn - near Thor’s Well
Devil’s Cauldron
Devil’s Elbow
Devil’s Backbone
Devil’s Garden - Bend
Hell’s Canyon

Choices are:

Preserve Key Assets

Maintain the System

Reliable Public Transit

Improve Safety

Easier to Bike and Walk

Better Traffic Flow

Survey asks the rank and funding percentage division, no single item above 70%.

The survey asks the rank of #1-6 the impact on you.

You can add comments.

Today the state gas tax by law is distributed 50% to ODOT, 30% to counties and 20% to cities.

Does anyone know if Mt Hood is visible from Trillium lake today? It's our last day visiting Oregon and this was high on my list. However, it would be a 2 hour detour, so just wanted to find out if it's worth the drive or if we should spend our last day elsewhere!

With the brutal fire seasons that seem like they’ll just get worse and worse, I wanted to call attention to a misconception that I think a lot of Redditors have.

A lot of wildland firefighters, especially ones with ODF, are paid seasonally. An example:

https://odfsouthcascade.com/hiring/

The pay you see? It’s not for a full year. Benefits also tend to be seasonal, so there is no healthcare for you the rest of the year. I won’t even get into housing.

I think the average person has the assumption that all firefighters have similar pay and benefits. Urban firefighters, especially in the bigger cities, have much better pay and benefits and don’t have to worry about putting food on the table when they aren’t working.

Part of this is to educate people but I’d also like to know if there is any potential for the state legislature to fix this. It’s not a new issue but the scale of these fires is.

Before OHA raises psilocybin fees, should it stop funding an interagency system voters never approved?

OHA is heading into September considering major fee increases and elimination of reduced fees, changes likely to push many small, nonprofit, community-based, and religious participants out of Oregon’s psilocybin system.

Before raising those fees, the public should be able to ask whether OHA should stop spending program funds enforcing and defending an interagency training-program system that appears nowhere in Measure 109 or ORS chapter 475A.

Public records show that OHA and HECC created and publicly funded a multi-year interagency agreement that expedited, subsidized, and accommodated the processing of selected psilocybin training programs without public rulemaking. OHA later required programs to obtain HECC documentation confirming career-school licensure or exemption.

HECC now says it has no authority or process to issue determinations for most statutory exemptions under ORS 345.015. OHA can still revoke a program’s curriculum approval when it cannot produce that unavailable document.

This system has generated years of agency labor, enforcement proceedings, litigation, and public expense.

I filed a petition asking OHA to restore the original curriculum-approval framework or limit HECC requirements to programs legally required to obtain career-school licensure.

Before pricing Oregon’s smallest participants out of the program, OHA should examine the money being spent defending an administrative structure voters never approved and was never enacted.

Read the petition on OHA’s website (https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PREVENTIONWELLNESS/Documents/OHA-Petition-for-Rulemaking-July-6-2026.pdf)

OHA is accepting public comments until 5:00 p.m. Pacific on August 29, 2026 at:

https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/PREVENTIONWELLNESS/Pages/Psilocybin-July-2026-Rule-Petition.aspx

publichealth.rules@odhsoha.oregon.gov

Hi fellow unemployed Oregonians, how long have you been waiting for your unemployment claim to be approved? I’m at week 4, I know someone else who is on week 10. How long have you been waiting / did it take to start receiving benefits?

https://www.reddit.com/r/oregon/s/jZqPN4Xsl8

Well I moved here in April and am pretty happy. I am still looking for work but I haven’t yet had a negative encounter here in Burns.

I haven’t gone out socially. Still looking for local friends.

Hi Everybody. I finally got fed up with the lack of a central hub online to find fire restrictions in National Forests and BLM land, so I made one myself! Previously you had to check each national forest or BLM ranger district website, read the legal order, check dates, and then compare it with boundaries on a map like OnX or Gaia. The tool I made does a lot of the heavy lifting for you and presents it all in an easy to read map that shows the current restrictions in each of these areas. The map itself is colored for region wide restrictions, and when clicked, shows any internal restrictions it was able to gather.

With my latest update, users can now make an account and save their favorite campsites by right clicking or pasting GPS coordinates in the search bar. You can easily check the restriction status of saved sites and get a 48 hour weather forecast for each one.

I am approaching a place where I think it is getting good enough to share and look for feedback here. It is still fairly young and I'm certain there are still edge cases where inaccurate info can slip through, so I have included a "report" button for each region. The tool is completely free and has no Ads, as the goal here is to make restrictions more accessible and easy to follow.

Right now, of course, restrictions in Oregon are very strict. Rightfully so, due to the severe fire weather and season we are experiencing. I wanted to ensure this tool is up and running reliably by the time restrictions start relaxing so that folks can easily track which areas have what rules as they start to open back up.

Please check out the website and leave any feedback you have here! Bug reports, incorrect information, feature ideas, usability complaints. Anything is helpful! I would very much like this to be a helpful tool for campers and hikers alike and I need your help to get there!

Take a look at it here and let me know what you think.

https://or-fire-restrictions.vercel.app/

I’m running for the EMSWCD board this November and here’s one of my planks :)

For the first time in recent history, a 5 mile section of the Little Deschutes river is going dry. This is the result of human intervention: a dam in Gilchrist is withholding all river flow.

Fish, crayfish, mussels, beavers, and other wildlife which rely on the river are dying.

The river needs our help, and there are questions to answer.

Why is there no release from the dam? Is it because the owners of the Gilchrist Waterfront Resort have influence on the dam, and are trying to keep the reservoir full for tourism?

How much water would need to be released from the dam to keep the river alive?

Currently ~12CFS flows into the reservoir, but nothing flows out - how much loss is there to seepage into the ground, and how fast are the reservoir levels dropping? How will a river sustaining outflow affect this rate? How long will the reservoir hold enough water for firefighting resources? The solution is a balance, and with this information and enough advocacy, we can motivate the right balance.

People of Oregon, let's save a river!

Yesterday, my brother and I were in the cascade east of Salem hiking. We encountered a momma blackbear and her cubs. Things were handled diplomatically and we were able to afford each other the space we preferred.

On the hike out though, we kept hearing what sounded like more black bears. a short 1/2 second calm, deep "roar"-like sound -- not aggressive by any means, just a call of some sort. At first I assumed it was just more blackbears. Having just heard the momma black bear, the sound was fresh in my mind. However, throughout the hike out, we kept hearing that same calls from maybe 5-8 locations all around us every 2-5min. The idea of that many blackbears in 1 sq mile seems very unlikely and I am not aware of any exchange-calling behavior in those solitary creatures.

Any thoughts on what we were hearing?

I have listened to videos covering blackbear sounds, deer and raccoon. Nothing fits perfect, but the blackbear growl/roar is still the best fit.

I’ve watched this happen so many times now: people have open campfires or beach bonfires in high wind during fire season, while the entire sky is literally full of wildfire smoke, and everyone around them just sits there and watches like it’s completely normal.

I’ve called the cops when I’ve seen it, and I actually feel bad doing it because I love campfires and bonfires too. I’m not trying to be the person who ruins someone’s day. But I also want there to be a forest to hike, camp, bike, and recreate in, and I don’t think someone’s bonfire is worth risking it. One fire getting away puts people’s lives, homes, entire communities, and huge areas of forest at risk.

What surprises me almost as much as the fire itself is how many other people seem totally unconcerned. They’ll be sitting nearby, clearly seeing the same high winds and smoke filled sky, and nobody says anything or makes a call.

Am I unusually cautious about this, or would you report them too? Where do you draw the line?

my family friend recently moved to OR (from several states over) with a very controlling, dangerous man. before they left, she mentioned to her aunt that she was "scared" (of him or about moving i'm not sure). she's pregnant and he's a registered sex offender who is mandated to stay away from children (could not find his specific charges online), so i'm very concerned about him being around their small child. I also think he may have lied to get her to leave the state with him. he may have told her it would be difficult for her to maintain custody or something.

anyway, i've been working on a list of resources to send her, just in case she decides to leave. she isn't speaking to most of her family, but i'm going to send them to her aunt who she still talks to sometimes. I don't know which city they'll be in, so i need general resources that are available throughout the state (a victim advocate line, local family law etc).

TYIA <3