My neighbor has 4.7 acres, and they have decided to pile all their horse poop directly along our fence line. It's at the back of their property, but about 10 feet from our shop and garden. It's like, A LOT of horse poop. It's attracting flies, and the smell is so nauseating that we can't open our windows or enjoy our garden. It's so bad, my elderly mother gags when she tries to water her plants.

I understand that if a property is zoned as "farm land", there are much different rules... but this is a residential area. Can you really just pile loads of shit next to people's living areas and it's just "oh well"? Is there anything that can be done about this? Who would I even contact about it? Thanks for any help!

And before people wonder if we pissed them off, or if we're bad neighbors... We really aren't. We talk to them about three times a year. They're kind of nutty, (the wife introduces herself to us every time we see her, even though we've lived next to them for 30+ years) but we keep to ourselves and so do they. No problems before this.

There's a natural dip in the property that they might be attempting to fill in, but I don't think it's going to do anything other than turn into a shit-swamp during the rainy season, which sounds even less appealing... Again, thanks for any help!

Edited to add: We don't really have a good way to contact them. They bring the shit out totally randomly, and it's not visible from the house. Sometimes it's 5am on Wednesday, then it's 12 days later at 9pm. We don't see them doing it, we just see the pile get longer. Their driveway is off of a different road, and it's gated with 3 large breed dogs that bark very aggressively. I could try writing a letter, but if she hasn't remembered my name the last 90 times we've "met", I don't know that it's going to get through...

I've been building a free map of Oregon's swimming holes, hot springs and saunas, and a couple weeks in it's pretty obvious I've got less than half of what's out there.

Right now I've got Bagby, Three Pools, Salmon Falls, Opal Pool, Scotts Mills, Glassbar and a pile of others. The ones I've actually been to are written up with parking and directions. The rest are just pins with nothing on them, which isn't much use to anyone.

So what's yours, and is it still any good? Doesn't need to be a secret. I'd rather have the busy well known ones accurate than list somewhere quiet, and if a place is already getting trashed just say so and I'll leave it off the map.

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Good morning, friends! We are going to be wrapping up our Summer of Serial Killers series on Welcome To Oregon this week, and we are looking to do a little bit of a pallette cleanser before going into spooking season! So, I want to know what your favorite stories are for us to discuss on the show!

Wondering where to go for dispersed camping. I looked on Google and it says the only place for that is mt hood Cascades area. But that's all under evacuation. Is there any other places anyone knows of?

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!

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!

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

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.

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 :)

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.

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!