Outdoor School isn't just a camp for sixth graders, a classic Oregon way of teaching 12-year-olds about science, the environment and social survival. It's also a dirt-cheap way to give teenagers ...

Camp Tamarack in Sisters, Oregon. The Culver School District pulled students from the camp after finding out some nonbinary counselors, who were high schoolers, would stay in cabins with students.

A longtime Oregon coast retreat commonly used for summer camp and Outdoor School is opening its doors to the public.

Camp Tamarack in Sisters, Oregon. The Culver School District pulled students from the camp after finding out some non-binary counselors, who were high schoolers, would stay in cabins with students.

Grant High School student Lucy Brewster, pictured here in a self-portrait, started Outdoor School as a mentor. She left feeling more like a student after learning a valuable lesson in resilience ...

More budget cuts are threatening Oregon’s Outdoor School program, which provides hands-on science education to thousands of sixth graders across the state.

Oregon Governor Kate Brown announced new guidance for outdoor sports to resume in the state -- and the new guidelines will be based on county risk levels. For the past few months, football ...

Students do not shower while at outdoor school. Anderson also pointed out that the camp has had transgender high school students serve as counselors in past years and it was never an issue.

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Eighty-one percent of Oregon’s eligible fifth- and sixth-grade students participated in the statewide Oregon State University Extension Service Outdoor School program ...

Oregon voters approved Measure 99, the ballot measure that takes a portion of the state’s lottery money to create the Outdoor School Education Fund.The program will help preserve the nearly half ...

The Outdoor School program was groundbreaking when it started more than a half-century ago. Since then, more than 1 million children have enjoyed or endured this rite of passage at campsites ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — More budget cuts are threatening Oregon’s Outdoor School program, which provides hands-on science education to thousands of sixth graders across the state. Parents ...