When Oregon’s only saltwater lake mysteriously dried up in 2014, turning a vibrant landscape teeming with migratory birds into a desiccated, abandoned salt pan, state environmental regulators ...

Keith Kreuz dips a bucket into the mirrored cerulean waters of Lake Abert in the remote high desert of Oregon’s Outback. He pulls it up, studies it, then slowly tips the water out, looking for signs ...

Irrigation for grazing and evaporation due to global heating is draining Oregon’s Lake Abert. Now environmentalists and ranchers are looking for common ground on how to save it The water level in ...

Last summer, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observed dust blowing 85 miles from its source, Lake Abert and Summer Lake, two dried-up saline lakes in southern Oregon.

Sometimes, winter in the forest can seem like there isn’t much going on – especially if, like me, you might be out there with a group of 60 excited schoolchildren. Wildlife often make themselves ...

To reach Lake Abert, in the high desert of southern Oregon, you can drive south from Bend for about two and a half hours, across the remote northern end of the Great Basin, where there is nothing but ...

The ears of the Abert’s squirrel are long and fuzzy, like a shaggy cross between bat and rabbit ears. It’s a cartoonish creature, often gray with a white underside, but the all-black subspecies is ...