A bucket of collected rocks from the White Fir Agate Beds. U.S. Forest service roads zigzag through the mountains and wooded landscapes of the Ochoco National Forest. Getting the full scope of the ...

K.T. Myers (left) and Guy DiTorrice, both of Newport, search for agates and fossils in a creek near Newport's Beverly Beach State Park. (Joe Hansen/Special to The Oregonian) Joe Hansen, Special to the ...

In a full day's search on the last day of March, Mike Jacobs of Monticello and I found 121 agates. That seemed a lot to an amateur like me, whose agate hunting has been largely confined to looking ...

Designers say local materials reduce their environmental impact and are aesthetically pleasing, too. By Rachel Garrahan Gray-white billows swirl across the surface of an agate ring in Sian Evans’s new ...

The Oregon coast is known for all kinds of natural beauty. Seashells, however, are not one of them. But that doesn’t stop crowds from coming to the coast to search the sand for that one special ...