PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a legal petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week that the Crater Lake newt (also known as the Mazama ...

On Thursday, the environmental nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity submitted a legal petition for protection of the Crater Lake newt under the Endangered Species Act to the U.S. Fish and ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal petition today with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Crater Lake newt (also known as the Mazama newt) under the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service might be facing a new lawsuit over newts in Crater Lake. The Center for Biological Diversity says Fish and Wildlife failed to protect newts ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Zoo is launching an emergency plan to save newts that are native to Crater Lake from extinction, the zoo announced Thursday. The zoo is teaming up with the National ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Mazama newt used to be head honcho at Crater Lake. Found only in the lake's cold waters, this brightly-colored semiaquatic species used to be one of the top predators in its ...

Not far into the 20th century, on May 22, 1902, Crater Lake became the fifth national park in the United States. Today, it remains the only national park in Oregon. Since the redesignation of the ...

I’ve been visiting Crater Lake my entire life, as this iconic national park is only a few hours’ drive from my hometown of Glide. Despite dozens of trips there, the first sight of that massive crater ...

The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ...

Nestled within the Cascade Range is an Oregon treasure — the great, blue 1,949-foot-deep Crater Lake — Oregon’s only national park and the deepest lake in the U.S. Although it’s a 20-square-mile lake, ...