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Bear Creek StewardsVolunteers are coming together for a clean-up event along Bear Creek in the Rogue Valley. The event is organized with others across the state for Earth Week. -
EPA Region 10Environmental agencies are continuing their efforts to clean up a spill of petroleum products into Bear Creek after Tuesday鈥檚 three-alarm fire at a fuel depot near downtown Medford.
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The Almeda Fire last year followed a creekside forest running through several Southern Oregon towns, destroying thousands of homes along the way. But in this greenway, fire offers a new beginning. -
Last summer, the City of Medford partnered with nonprofit Rogue Retreat to establish an urban campground on private property for homeless people living along the Bear Creek Greenway. The lease on the campground ends at the end of this year. As winter comes on, organizers are struggling to find a place for residents to go. -
Jackson County has laid out a multi-phase plan to restore and improve the Greenway after large swathes of the riparian corridor from Ashland to Medford were burned in the Almeda Fire. -
A temporary campground in Medford is meant to lure homeless people off the nearby Bear Creek Greenway, at least for now. And it's helping a portion of the Greenway's campers get needed services. So, what now? -
High levels of E.coli bacteria have been found in the Bear Creek Basin, contaminating tributaries in Ashland, Talent, Medford and Central Point. -
We're long past the days when we ignored and abused our streams to the point where they'd actually catch fire (Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, 1969). But our鈥�
