Oregon Forest Landscape

Massive Aquifer Beneath Oregon’s Cascades Could Be the Largest in the World

The hidden water reservoir is shockingly larger than previously thought—holding more than half the volume of Lake Tahoe.

Fox 12 Oregon · 1d

UO teams finds huge underground aquifer in Cascades

A team of researchers with the University of Oregon on Monday announced they have found a massive amount of water under the Cascade Mountains in Oregon.

IFLScience on MSN · 12h

A Giant Aquifer Discovered Beneath Oregon Could Reshape Future Volcanic Eruptions

An enormous body of water has been found in volcanic rocks below the peak of the Oregon Cascade Range. The volume is so large, the push to use it to address regional water shortages is likely to come quickly,

Science Daily · 1d

Atop the Oregon Cascades, team finds a huge buried aquifer

Scientists have mapped the amount of water stored beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades and found an aquifer many times larger than previously estimated -- at least 81 cubic kilometers.

Phys.org on MSN · 1d

Oregon Cascades hide a huge buried aquifer

Oregon's Cascade Range mountains might not hold gold, but they store another precious resource in abundance: water. Scientists from the University of Oregon and their partners have mapped the amount of water stored beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades and found an aquifer many times larger than previously estimated—at least 81 cubic kilometers.

Readers respond: Save old growth forest in Oregon

At one time Oregon had several hundred thousand acres of old growth forests that provided habitat for animals and plants, ...

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Researchers find vast water supply beneath central Oregon Cascades

The previously unmapped aquifer is estimated to be more than three times the size of the Lake Mead reservoir in Nevada.

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University of Oregon researchers discover massive aquafir under central Oregon Cascades

University of Oregon researchers have discovered a massive underground aquafir at the crest of the central Oregon Cascade ...

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Oregon aims to count beavers, change narrative about resourceful rodents

Clad in waders and staff in hand, Conrad Ely trudged through the icy Carlson Creek, a stream meandering under mossy Douglas ...

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Oregon Forest Science Complex

and offices where students and researchers can study all aspects of the forest landscape. In 2020, the new Peavy Hall and the Advanced Wood Products Laboratory (AWP) were completed at Oregon ...

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Oregon’s bigger, more severe fires worry those tasked with fighting them

Currently, Oregon has three forest protective associations that ... s property are filled with fuels that sustain fires. On the landscape’s other extreme, burn scars from previous fires that ...

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