The State Land Board voted unanimously Tuesday to create the 80,000-acre Elliott State Research Forest, signaling an end to a years-long debate over how to manage a state forest in southwest Oregon ...

It's a scene that every child of the ’80s knows by heart: Riding through the California wilderness with his extra-terrestrial pal, E.T., riding shotgun — or, more accurately, riding shot-basket — ...

The Elliott State Forest was the first of its kind, established in 1930 and named for Francis Elliott, Oregon’s first state forester, who consolidated scattered school trust lands into one large block ...