Skyline Forest
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An Extraordinary Event of Summer

Tortoiseshells and other butterflies are welcome visitors in Central Oregon
Jim Anderson

Oh, boy, are we having fun! Right now, during these warm first weeks of July, the California tortoiseshell butterfly, one of the more dashing of the nymphalids, is popping out by the hundreds of thousands—if not millions —in the foothills of the Cascades, known as the Skyline Forest. This beautiful butterfly has been flitting around […]

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Go Here 9/21-9/28

Russ Axon

Discover Nature Festival Nature is one of the greatest classrooms where kids and adults can learn about wildlife, outdoor skills and get in shape. The Children's Forest of Central Oregon, Bend Park and Recreation District and U.S. Forest Service will celebrate all that nature has to offer with the annual Discover Nature Festival at Riverbend […]

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Letters 2/17-2/24

The Source Staff

IN REPLY TO “FIDELITY SELLS SKYLINE FOREST TO SINGAPORE-BASED COMPANY” (2/20) We can only move forward with what we have or give up. Stay the course Brad, we have your back. —Mark Davis via bendsource.com Words can’t even describe my disappointment in this sale. The slow and methodical takeover of our lands and resources by […]

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Farewell to Skyline Forest?

After a decade of conservation efforts, the forest’s sale casts doubt on future
Avatar photo Erin Rook

It’s a view that keeps building heights low and spirits high—the majestic, snow-capped Cascades, skirted by ponderosa forests. But the future of that view may be in jeopardy. That’s because the 33,000-acre swath of forestland west of Bend known as Skyline Forest—where Bendites mountain bike, hike, and ride horseback on user-created trails—doesn’t belong to the […]

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Fidelity Sells Skyline Forest to Singapore-Based Company, Future of Conservation Efforts Unknown

Avatar photo Erin Rook

Skyline Forest, the 33,000 square-acre swath of forest land northwest of Skyliners Road, has a new owner. Singapore-based company Whitefish Cascade Forest Resources, LLC, purchased the forest as part of an acquisition of 197,000 square acres of forest lands in Deschutes and Klamath counties previously owned by Fidelity Financial’s Cascade Timberlands. The sale is controversial because […]

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