Media & Resources
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• A cyclist's love letter to Skyline Forest | Bend Bulletin, 30 January 2024
• Envision Bend’s new five-year plan highlights Skyline Forest, affordable housing, and more | Bend Bulletin, 1 October 2023
• Kids Have A Voice: Save Skyline Forest | Bend Nest, 2 February 2023
• Editorial: A crossroads for Skyline Forest | Bend Bulletin, 31 December 2022
• Skyline Forest draws public support for conservation after restricting public access and a listing price dropped | Bend Bulletin, 16 December 2022
• Bull Springs Skyline Forest: A Treasure of Central Oregon | Mason & Morse Ranch Company, 4 November 2022
A recent acknowledgement from the brokerage selling Skyline Forest of the conservation campaign and the Central Oregon community’s vision for its future.
• Save Skyline Forest for wildlife and recreation | Bend Bulletin, 4 October 2022
• After nearly 3 years without a buyer, 33,000-acre Skyline Forest sales price is slashed 25% — to $95 million | KTVZ, 13 September 2022
• Let’s Not Lose the Skyline Forest | Bend Bulletin, 19 August 2022
• Owners of 33,000-acre Bull Springs/Skyline Forest west of Bend to close access due to high fire danger | KTVZ, 4 August 2022
• Press Release | Save Skyline Forest Campaign, 28 April 2022
• Saving Skyline Forest | Deschutes Land Trust, 11 April 2022
• Skyline Forest: The Burning Question | Central Oregon LandWatch, 28 February 2022
• What’s Next for Skyline Forest? | 1859 Magazine, 22 February 2022
• Winter Road Closures Keep Mule Deer Safe and Healthy | Central Oregon LandWatch, 4 February 2022
• Skyline Forest’s Uncertain Future | Central Oregon LandWatch, 30 June 2020
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The Save Skyline Forest Community Letter to Elected Officials & Compilation of Public Support | Central Oregon LandWatch
The Story of Skyline Forest | Deschutes Land Trust
Skyline Forest Survey Findings Memo February 2022 | Public Policy Polling
Ten Things Oregonians Should Know About Forest Fires | Oregon Wild
Mule Deer in the High Desert | High Desert Museum
Deschutes National Forest Winter Range | USFS
Seasonal Neighbors: Residential Development Encroaches on Mule Deer Winter Range in Central Oregon | USFS PNW Research Station
Groundwater/Surface-Water Interaction | USGS
Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems | USFS
Oregon Drought Monitor | US Drought Monitor
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SKYLINE FOREST IS AN UNSAFE & UNWISE PLACE FOR DEVELOPMENT
Central Oregon Daily | Bull Springs Fire
Congressional Research Services | Wildfire Statistics
Deschutes Land Trust | Ponderosa Pines
Deschutes Land Trust | Skyline Timeline
Fire Weather & Avalanche Center | Bull Springs Fire
Joint Fire Science Program | “After the Fire, Follow the Nitrogen”
KTVZ | Bull Springs Fire
Mason & Morse Ranch Company | Skyline Forest Listing
Mongabay | Old vs. Young Growth Forests
NatureServe Explorer| Climate Change Vulnerability of Eastern Cascades
Oregon Forest Resources Institute | Oregon Forest Landownership Stats
Oregon Wild | Oregon Forest Fire Facts
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | “Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration”
US Fire Administration | Wildland Urban Interface
USFS | Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation in South-Central Oregon
USGCRP | Chapter 8: Droughts, Floods, and Wildfire
WILDLIFE & WATER IN SKYLINE FOREST
BMC | Effect of Climate Variability on Ungulate Migration
COLW | Mule Deer in Winter
COLW | Winter Range
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs | Tribal Code
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs | Wildlife
Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project | Deer & Elk
Deschutes Land Trust | California Tortoiseshell Butterflies
Deschutes Land Trust | Central Oregon Indigenous Peoples
Deschutes Land Trust | Tumalo Winter Range Cooperative Closure
Deschutes Land Trust | Winter Range
High Desert Museum | Mule Deer Story Map
NatureServe Explorer | East Cascade Climate Vulnerability
Oregon Conservation Strategy | Mixed Conifer Forest
OSU | California Tortoiseshell Butterflies
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Lewis’s Woodpecker
The Nature of Bend | Kriegh, L. (2016). The nature of Bend: the insider's guide to Central Oregon plants & animals. Bend, Oregon: Tempo Press.
Upper Deschutes River Basin Study Work Group | Upper Deschutes River Basin Study
Upper Deschutes Watershed Council | Whychus Creek Restoration
US Drought Monitor | Oregon Drought Monitor
USFS | Residential Development Encroaches on Mule Deer Winter Range
USGS | Groundwater/Surface-Water Interaction
OUTDOOR ACCESS NEARBY IN SKYLINE FOREST
Modern Forager | Burn Morel Environmental Factors
The Nature of Bend | Kriegh, L. (2016). The nature of Bend: the insider's guide to Central Oregon plants & animals. Bend, Oregon: Tempo Press.
USFS | Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems
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SKYLINE FOREST IS AN UNSAFE & UNWISE PLACE FOR DEVELOPMENT
A History of Large Fires in Bull Springs Skyline Forest heading photo: Deb Quinlan
Coexisting with Fire heading photo: Nate Wyeth
WILDLIFE & WATER IN SKYLINE FOREST
Wildlife & Water in Skyline Forest banner photo: Deschutes Land Trust / Patrick Buresh
Essential Water for Central Oregon heading photo: Shawn McEntyre
Connected Since Time Immemorial heading photo: Meredith Fontana
A Brighter Future for the Wildlife of Skyline Forest video: James Parsons
OUTDOOR ACCESS NEARBY IN SKYLINE FOREST
Outdoor Access Nearby in Skyline Forest banner photo: Nate Wyeth
An Outdoor Oasis for All heading photo: Alpine Running / James Holk
Private Ownership of Skyline Forest Means Uncertain Access heading photo: James Parsons
Community Access to Skyline Forest, Always video: James Parsons