When the U.S. Forest Service announced in January that it would be closing 30,000 acres of Deschutes National Forest ...

The gate on China Hat Road south of Bend swung shut early Thursday, closing a large area of homeless encampments on the ...

Dozens of people forced to leave the Deschutes National Forest in Oregon set up camp nearby in different wooded areas.

Forest closure could be ‘largest mass eviction of homeless people in recent history,’ advocates say One of Central Oregon’s ...

More than 100 people were forced to leave a long-term forest homeless camp south of Bend on May 1 for a project aimed ...

Law enforcement and logging trucks rumbled into Deschutes National Forest in the dark morning hours of May 1 at 3 a.m. The ...

A federal judge in Eugene on Tuesday rejected a plea by homeless people living in the woods south of Bend to delay Thursday's ...

In a statement, Forest Service officials said that “any abandoned ... Some camps, including China Hat, have become established and become not only a home for people, but also places that police ...

A judge cleared the way for a closure of Deschutes National Forest in an area home to around 100 homeless forest campers near Bend in central Oregon.

On May 1, roughly 150 homeless campers will be evicted from the Deschutes National Forest for the Cabin Butte Fuel Reduction ...

This story was originally published by Journalism Lab. Visitors to the woods surrounding China Hat Road may recognize Zachary "Zack" Polton's yellow ...