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The Richard S. Irwin Barn, also referred to as Cheadle Barn, is a historic agricultural building located in rural Benton County, Oregon, United States. [2]The barn was purchased by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1965, and is part of the William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge. [2]
The E. E. Wilson Wildlife Area (or E. E. Wilson Game Management Area) is a wildlife management area located near Corvallis, Oregon. The site was named for Eddy Elbridge Wilson, a member of the former Oregon State Game Commission for fourteen years before his death in 1961. [2] [3] Wildlife visible includes blacktail deer, pheasant, and quail. [4]
The 2020 Oregon wildfire season was the most destructive on record in the state of Oregon. The season is a part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season . The fires killed at least 11 people, burned more than 1,000,000 acres (400,000 ha) of land, and destroyed thousands of homes.
Oregon's largest blaze, the Cow Valley Fire along the state's desolate eastern flank, stood at 132,528 acres Monday, with 5% containment reported late Monday along its 163-mile perimeter ...
Bolan Mountain Lookout in southern Oregon was destroyed by the Slater Fire. “Slater impacted a lot of people,” Scott Blower, district manager for the Wild Rivers Ranger District, said in a ...
Beazell Memorial Forest is a preserve of temperate rainforest ten miles (16 km) west of Corvallis, Oregon, United States in the Central Oregon Coast Range. The forest was donated to Benton County by Fred Beazell in 2000.
Fitton Green is located in the Central Oregon Coast Range foothills. [3] The park comprises several forest types, including Douglas fir, mixed riparian forest, oak woodland, oak savanna, Bigleaf maple groves, old-growth forest remnants, managed conifers and tree plantations, and rare upland prairie, which supports a population of the endangered Taylor's checkerspot butterfly.
The 2021 Oregon wildfire season began in May 2021. [2] More than 1,000 fires had burned at least 518,303 acres (209,750 ha) across the state as of July 21, 2021. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] As of August 1, it was expected that the fires might not be contained for months.