The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is trying to eradicate nonnative brook trout from Bear Lake, in the northern Wallowa Mountains, to protect bull trout, a federally threatened species, in ...

Brook trout have been cooked over the coals at campsites beside alpine lakes in the Eagle Cap Wilderness for many decades. But the tasty trout, despite the thousands of meals they’ve supplied to ...

Sept. 3 of this year marked the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. On that day 60 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act of 1964 into law, officially creating the ...

In this Aug. 20, 2016 photo, Mirror Lake, the larger lake in the left center, in the Lake Basin of the Eagle Cap Wilderness area is seen in the distance near Joseph, Ore. Eagle Cap peak is at the far ...