Outdoors

Outdoors Who to call if you think you are being scammed

By KVAL News Published: Apr 9, 2013 at 4:15 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 9, 2013 at 4:15 PM PDT

An Oregon woman lost $750,000 in an Internet romance scam with a con artist posing as a member of the U.S. military, the Oregon Attorney General said Tuesday.

Outdoors All-paraplegic race team: 'Don't ever believe you can't do anything' (Photo Gallery)

By Shannon L. Cheesman, Multimedia Journalist / Travel & Outdoors Published: Apr 9, 2013 at 2:23 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 9, 2013 at 8:42 PM PDT

To watch them ride, you wouldn't think they were different from any other guys who were out on the race course this past weekend competing for top honors. But there is something unique about this group.

Outdoors Snowpacks across the state mostly below normal (Photo Gallery)

By Jeff Barnard, AP Environmental Writer Published: Apr 7, 2013 at 9:15 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 7, 2013 at 9:15 AM PDT

Oregon's tallest peak has raked enough moisture out of passing storms to claim the only normal snowpack in the state. But the farther a river basin is from Mount Hood, the worse summertime river flows look.

Outdoors Gun club, now bordered by urban sprawl, hits 100-year mark (Photo Gallery)

By Shannon L. Cheesman, Multimedia Journalist / Travel & Outdoors Published: Apr 5, 2013 at 11:35 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 26, 2013 at 1:31 PM PDT

Folks have been shooting clay targets at the Portland Gun Club for a very long time - 100 years to be exact.

Outdoors 'Very angry' cougar on I-5 hit by car, later put down (Photo Gallery)

By KATU.com Staff Published: Apr 5, 2013 at 9:03 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 5, 2013 at 11:14 AM PDT

A cougar was hit by a car on Friday morning on Interstate 5 just north of Woodland, state troopers said.

Outdoors 'Davy Crockett' mountain man suspect captured (Photo Gallery)

By PAUL FOY - Associated Press & KBOI Web Staff Published: Apr 4, 2013 at 11:49 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 4, 2013 at 11:49 AM PDT

With the summer tourist season fast approaching, authorities are stepping up the search for a mountain man considered armed and dangerous who has spent more than five years breaking into dozens of cabins across remote southern Utah, stealing guns and supplies before retreating into the forest.

Outdoors Bend teen is first with Down syndrome to reach Everest base camp

By KATU.com Staff Published: Apr 2, 2013 at 5:12 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 3, 2013 at 4:00 PM PDT

A 15-year-old boy from Bend, Oregon scaled Mt. Everest and became the first person with Down syndrome to reach the Nepal base camp.

Outdoors Dams + Major Earthquake = ?

By JEFF BARNARD, AP Environmental Writer Published: Apr 2, 2013 at 5:09 PM PDT Last Updated: Apr 2, 2013 at 5:09 PM PDT

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is halfway through studies of the threat posed by a major offshore earthquake to its 20 dams in Oregon and southern Washington.

Outdoors Giant boulder partially blocks road (Photo Gallery)

By KPIC News Published: Apr 2, 2013 at 10:22 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 2, 2013 at 10:49 AM PDT

A huge boulder came down on a rural road east of Sutherlin, and traffic was cut down to one lane Tuesday morning.

Outdoors Diamond Lake: 'I'd never fished there in the winter' (Photo Gallery)

By HENRY MILLER Statesman Journal Published: Apr 2, 2013 at 8:36 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 2, 2013 at 8:36 AM PDT

The bulb came on when Ty Sermon saw an article about a pair of ice-fishing clinics at Diamond Lake in southwestern Oregon near Crater Lake.

Outdoors Feds ask if pot garden poison a threat to predator (Photo Gallery)

By JEFF BARNARD, AP Environmental Writer Published: Apr 2, 2013 at 8:38 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 2, 2013 at 8:38 AM PDT

For the first time, federal biologists are assessing whether illegal marijuana gardens in the back woods of the West could threaten the extinction of a wild animal.

Outdoors The Red Bull Schlittentag at Skibowl: 'It was epic' (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By Shannon L. Cheesman, KATU Multimedia Journalist Published: Apr 1, 2013 at 8:03 AM PDT Last Updated: Apr 1, 2013 at 8:03 AM PDT

They spent hours upon hours building a sled that would only go down the hill one time and would most likely get destroyed in the process. But ask anyone who participated in the Red Bull Schlittentag and they'll tell you it was all worth it.

Outdoors How Northwest storms can behave just like Angry Birds

By Scott Sistek Published: Mar 29, 2013 at 11:20 AM PDT Last Updated: Mar 29, 2013 at 2:25 PM PDT

Earlier this month, I gave a little weather lesson to my daughter's kindergarten and preschool class and in racking my brain on how to relate something as complex as weather and storms to 3-5 years olds, I came up with something most could all relate to: Angry Birds.

No, really. It turns out, a lot of our storms that push into the Northwest off the Pacific can indeed act like our favorite flying green-pig slayers.

I'll give a few examples:

Outdoors Douglas County + Easter = Egg Hunt Time!

By KPIC.com Staff Published: Mar 28, 2013 at 3:47 PM PDT Last Updated: Mar 28, 2013 at 3:48 PM PDT

Ready to hunt some eggs? How about a day and a half of fun filled scrambling for goodies?

Outdoors Photos: Bandon animal park boasts two new furry additions (Photo Gallery)

By Wesleigh Ogle KCBY News Published: Mar 28, 2013 at 8:56 AM PDT Last Updated: Mar 28, 2013 at 8:56 AM PDT

Meet Bonnie and Clyde. They aren't notorious yet, but officials at the West Coast Game Park in Bandon say it won't be too long before everyone knows their names.