Agate Desert News Today

As a field biologist, Keith Perchemlides has often watched flames dance around tiny ponds that mark the remains of a vast wetland that once covered a large part of southwestern Oregon’s Rogue River Valley. Often, he was the one that set fire to the dry grass. Back then, he was working for The Nature Conservancy […]

A storied Southern Oregon stewardship group is relaunching its popular spring hike series by highlighting a string of its newest land holdings in Jackson County. After a two-year COVID hiatus, the Sou...

Out by the Table Rocks, just as the farmers began to plow, the rain brought everything to a stop. What would become the biggest flooding event in Jackson County since the 1890 flood began with the fir...