I think it points to one of the unique things about the Central Oregon Cascades, which is its geologic ... call the critical zone. It’s this near-surface layer where atmospheric processes ...

Karlstrom — along with researchers from Oregon State University, Duke and the U.S. Forest Service — are trying to map out how much water is stored beneath the volcanic rocks of the Cascades.

A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades ... currently stored at the Cascade Range crest in an area near the Santiam Pass.

Interstate 84 westbound is closed near ... of the Cascades. An ice storm warning is in place until 4 a.m. Friday for the central and southern Willamette Valley and the central Oregon Coast Range ...