Hart Mountain Revealed Recap
During our 2019 High Desert Speaker Series, ONDA’s Hart-Sheldon Coordinator Jeremy Austin presented in both Bend and Portland. Here’s the “CliffsNotes” version of his for Hart Mountain Revealed talk. Where […]
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Desert Wilderness Retrospective
Author: Gena Goodman-Campbell | Published: April 2, 2019 | Category: Look Back A Tale of Two Wilderness Areas: Badlands and Spring Basin On March 30, 2009, President Obama signed a […]
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Dark Desert Skies
Author: Kody Osborne | Published: March 29, 2019 | Categories: Where-To, How-To For those of us who have spent time in Oregon’s high desert, there is no need to explain […]
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Happy Birthday!Oregon Desert Trail Turns Five
Author: Renee Patrick | Published: May 20, 2019 | Category: Essay Looking back on five years of the ODT In the spring of 2014, ONDA released a basic map-set for […]
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Meet Mary McCord
ONDA Volunteer Extraordinaire Over the past few years, Mary McCord went from being newly introduced to ONDA to becoming a frequent volunteer in Bend. Mary and her husband, Tom, attended […]
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How to Shoot a Desert Video
Videos can tell stories, convey ideas and immerse the viewer into an environment in ways that are difficult to achieve with photographs or the written word. And, with many video […]
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How to Shoot a Desert Video
Did you already read How to Shoot a Desert Video – Part 1 that covers planning for and shooting your video? If so, check out this post to get some pointers […]
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The Creation Story and the Malheur Cave
For the Paiute of the Great Basin of the American West, winter is storytelling season. Around the fires of Paiute camps and villages, storytellers passed on tribal visions of the […]
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Special Waters
Author: Julie Weikel | Published: January 2, 2019 | Category: Essay Julie Weikel, a longtime ONDA member, wrote this essay about the wild waters of the Pueblo Mountains to nominate […]
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A Conversation with Kim Stafford
Author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, Kim Stafford is Oregon’s Poet Laureate for 2018 to 2020. He follows after Elizabeth Woody, who served as Oregon’s Poet Laureate from […]
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