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Oregon Explorer Websites

Oregon Explorer

Comprehensive digital library of Oregon's natural resources that provides access to information through a series of geographic, data, and topic-based Web portals.

Topic Portals

Farm Explorer

Offers data, tools and information that map Oregon's rural and urban connections through an exploration of farms and markets.

Hazards Explorer

Information and data that helps landowners, planners, agency staff, and interested citizens understand hazards throughout Oregon.

Land Use Explorer

Helps citizens, policymakers, and community groups learn about land use and provides data to inform land use decisions.

Rural Communities Explorer

Information and data to provide community leaders, policymakers, and others with better understanding as they make decisions about rural issues.

Wetlands Explorer

Allows local citizens, landowners, and agency staff to learn about Oregon's wetland areas, and provides tools to help assess the condition of wetlands.

Wildfire Risk Explorer

Information and data that enables Oregon citizens, communities, and land management agencies to prioritize resources and reduce wildfire risk.

Wildlife Explorer

Offers data, tools, and information that helps local citizens, educators, students, and landowners learn about Oregon's wildlife and habitats.

Location Portals

Lakes Basin Explorer

Information to build awareness about natural resource management issues in Oregon's Lakes Basin.

Deschutes Basin Explorer

Expands understanding about natural resource issues such as salmon reintroduction and watershed restoration in Oregon's Deschutes Basin.

North Coast Explorer

Provides information about natural resources in Oregon's north coast region. The site includes background information about salmon and watersheds, including the habitat and restoration work conducted in this part of the state.

Umpqua Basin Explorer

Information to support decision-making about natural resources in Oregon's Umpqua Basin. The Umpqua Basin Explorer offers tools that show the locations of barriers to fish passage and where restoration efforts have re-opened habitat to native fish.

Willamette Basin Explorer

Provides information about land and water use in Oregon's Willamette River Basin. The Willamette Basin Explorer draws upon extensive research that looks at how natural resources were used in the past, how they are used currently, and how different decisions for future land and water use may affect the Willamette Basin and its inhabitants.

Western Landscapes Explorer

Focuses on collaborative organizations, such as the Western Governors Association and the Western Forestry Leadership Coalition and their prioritization of landscape-level management actions across the West. Featured: spatial data, landscape-level models and output from the Integrated Landscape Assessment Project, and photographs.

Data Portals

Imagery Explorer

Provides high-resolution (0.5 m) color aerial photography for the entire state of Oregon.

Oregon Spatial Data Library

Enables access to spatial data for the state of Oregon.