Publications

Tim Neville

ONDA provides interested community members with inspiration to get out and enjoy the desert, and the information and tools necessary to understand what is happening to their public lands.

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Great Basin Spadefoot Toads – a sleepy chorus

Great Basin Spadefoot Toads – a sleepy chorus

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Sage-grouse Mating Dance

Sage-grouse Mating Dance

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Helen Harbin on Wildlife

Helen Harbin on Wildlife

Newsletter

Published twice annually and sent to all members, Desert Ramblings gives readers an inside look at ONDA’s programs. For issues published before 2019, please feel free to email onda@onda.org.

Spring + Summer 2021

Fall+Winter 2021 (forthcoming)

Desert Ramblings spring+summer 2021 cover

Spring + Summer 2020

Fall+Winter 2020

Spring+Summer 2019

Fall+Winter 2019

Annual Reports

Our annual reports share the program highlights from the year and our financial health. You can also review our Financials.

2019 Annual Report

2018 Annual Report

2017 Annual Report

2016 Annual Report

2015 Annual Report

2014 Annual Report

2013 Annual Report

2012 Annual Report

2011 Annual Report

Wild Desert Calendar

ONDA’s calendar has become a highly-anticipated favorite among our members and the community at large. Produced as a volunteer-led effort, the Wild Desert Calendar showcases the beauty of the high desert through stunning photographs.

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Wild Desert Calendar

Oregon Natural Desert Association publishes the Wild Desert Calendar every year to share the awe-inspiring photography from Oregon’s dry side. Each calendar features treasured Oregon public lands, from the Owyhee Canyonlands to the Deschutes River canyon, as well as intimate portraits of high desert wildlife and evocative prose. The Wild Desert Calendar is a...

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Maps

ONDA’s conservation work spans millions of acres in eastern Oregon. These maps will fill you in on where our priority regions, including Oregon Badlands Wilderness, Steens Mountain, Owyhee Canyonlands, and Hart Mountain, fit into Oregon’s sagebrush steppe landscape. 

Digital Interactive Maps

Restoring Oregon’s Desert Landscapes

Wild and Unprotected: Protect Oregon’s critical desert waterways

Greater Hart-Sheldon: A Sagebrush Stronghold

 

 

Downloadable PDFs

Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area (CMPA)

Spring Basin Wilderness

Oregon Badlands Wilderness

Conservation Opportunities in Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands

Greater Hart-Sheldon Landscape

Sutton Mountain Proposed Wilderness Area

Brochures

Our brochures highlight the unique regions with Oregon’s vast southeast desert,  provide visitor information, and describe conservation opportunities.

Owyhee Canyonlands

Sutton Mountain Visitors Guide

Topical Reports

ONDA occasionally publishes in-depth reports on conservation topics.

Renewable Energy in Oregon: A policymaker’s guide to a responsible energy future

Wind Report