US Forest Service starts clearing homeless camp in Oregon national forest

Overlooked No More: Joyce Brown, Whose Struggle Redefined the Rights of the Homeless

Joyce Brown’s New York minute lasted longer than most. A onetime secretary, Brown became homeless in 1986 and began camping on a heating grate on Second Avenue and 65th Street in Manhattan. A year or so passed before she was picked up by city officials, involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital — where she was declared mentally ill — and forcibly given medication. Brown, who was better known as Billie Boggs, was the first homeless person…

From One Forest to Another: A Homeless Sweep Changes Little

After federal officials began a sweep of a vast forest in Oregon, most of the people who had used the woods as a last refuge had left. But they didn’t go far. With nowhere else to go, many drove their aging R.V.s to a different forest just a few dozen miles away. Advocates for the homeless estimate that there had been 100 to 200 people living in the original encampment on the outskirts of Bend, Ore., a town that has been transformed by an influx…

U.S. Forest Service Removes Homeless Camp From National Forest in Oregon to Do Maintenance Work

Every state in the country has problems with homeless people, but some blue states have allowed the problem to get much worse. In Oregon, the U.S. Forest Service has been planning to do some necessary maintenance work in a national forest but first had to clear out a sizable homeless population.

An Interview With A Fired U.S. Forest Service Hydrologic Technician

As a child, Claire Sneed had a morbid fascination with natural disasters. In first grade, she followed NOAA's online storm tracker. Later she witnessed Hurricanes Irene and Sandy sweep past her home in the Philadelphia area. On visits to Santa Fe to see her grandfather, Sneed marveled at the dramatic cliffs of Bandelier National Monument, which were formed by staggering volcanic explosions a million years ago. In 2000, a prescribed fire escaped,…

US Forest Service Clearing Out Long-Term Homeless Encampments in Oregon

US Forest Service starts clearing homeless camp in Oregon national forest, where some have lived for years

Dozens of homeless people who have been living in a national forest in central Oregon for years were being evicted Thursday by the US Forest Service, as it closed the area for a wildfire prevention project that will involve removing smaller trees, clearing debris and setting controlled burns over thousands of acres.