Mt. Hood Live Cam

Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort is one of five ski areas recognized in the "Golden Eagle Awards" for environmental excellence in ski area management, presented each year by The Skiing Company (publishers of Ski and Skiing Magazines) These prestigious awards, established in 1993, are presented in recognition of the environmental achievements of ski areas in six different categories.

Meadows received a "Silver Eagle" for environmental excellence in area design in restoring the bio-diversity and health of wildlife, native plants and water quality while constructing three new lifts and a three-acre parking lot. Meadows' revegetation program - which includes transplantation, constructing temporary nurseries during construction, and collecting native plant seeds for cultivation in greenhouses for replanting - was praised for enhancing the area's native plant population. Judges called the resort's program "an excellent example of how to revegetate an area through the use of natural, native plants. Its effort to create a high-alpine nursery to grow these native plants for revegetation should serve as a model for other ski areas."