In 2016, she represented the United States as a modern pentathlete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil ... working for the Ochoco National Forest and Crooked River National Grassland.

After Oregon’s record wildfire season in 2024, local communities and government officials are concerned that ongoing personnel purges at federal land management agencies could leave the region ...

“We had entire programs cut — our recreation and public service is completely gone,” said Isabella Isaksen, former public information officer for central Oregon’s Ochoco National Forest ...

The Trump administration's cuts to federal land management agencies have created an uncertain future on Oregon's public lands.

who Merkley said was “illegally removed from her job” as a public affairs officer for the Ochoco National Forest. Isaksen is also a pentathlete who competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.

According to Merkley’s office, Isaksen worked in the Ochoco National Forest and Crooked ... Isaksen was in the U.S. Army and a pentathlete at the 2016 summer Olympics. “The mass firings ...

ODOT High water from Ochoco Creek poured over Highway 380 ... More repairs will be needed this summer or fall to fully repair the damage from recent storms, installing a larger culvert and ...

The event was a joint effort between the nonprofit Discover Your Forest — a stewardship partner of the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests and Crooked ... West sees increasing fire activity during ...