Lakes throughout the Pacific Northwest take a long time to warm in the summer, and some of them, like the nearby 2,000-foot-deep Crater Lake, don’t warm up at all. I was cold already. Upon making ...

Sometimes the best getaways don’t require a plane ticket or a week’s worth of travel planning. For residents of Grants Pass, one of Oregon’s greatest natural wonders is practically in their backyard.

Mazama Newt photographed near Crater Lake National Park. Photo by Kyle Kosma / High Desert Museum. The Oregon Zoo, in ...

The Oregon Zoo announced Thursday that it has teamed up with the National Park Service and the High Desert Museum to try to save the endangered Crater Lake newt with a new captive breeding program in ...

Mazama newts are found only in Crater Lake, but an invasive predator has been pushing this species to the brink of extinction.

The Oregon Zoo is launching an emergency plan to save newts that are native to Crater Lake from extinction, the zoo announced Thursday.

In a bid to prevent the extinction of the Mazama newt, the Oregon Zoo will bring 19 of these rare amphibians to the zoo's conservation lab.

Hikers navigate switchbacks on the steep Cleetwood Cove Trail, the only path to the shore of Crater Lake in Oregon.

Deep in the pristine waters of Crater Lake lives a species found nowhere else on Earth: the Mazama newt. Once a dominant ...

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