From Wildflowers to Butterflies

Chris Christie

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Tim Neville, journalist

Tim Neville, journalist

“Oregon’s Owyhee reminds me a lot of Southern Utah’s red rock country… only dipped in fudge.”

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Terry Butler, 2018 Volunteer of the Year

Terry Butler, 2018 Volunteer of the Year

“If I have to pick a favorite place in Oregon’s high desert, it would be Sutton Mountain, but I’m excited about all of the Wilderness Study Areas,” says Terry, adding, “Each is a gem to explore, and I hope they all get protection someday… I love the scale of the physical beauty of the desert.”

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Aaron Tani, Sage Society Member

Aaron Tani, Sage Society Member

“It feels good to support ONDA on a monthly basis, because I know they never stop supporting our public lands. ONDA works to help make our lands a better place for the future, and I feel like I’m a part of that every month with my support.”

Wildflower Collection

Chris Christie took and shared thousands of photos, with a special focus on the wildflowers of the American West. Here, you can find over 1,800 of his wildflower images, all correctly identified by Latin and common name.

Wildflower Collection

Bird Collection

Along with wildflowers, insects, petroglyphs and mammals, birds were another special focus of Chris Christie. Here you'll find more than 1,900 images of birds, along with careful notes on where the photo was taken.

Bird Collection
Sisyrinchium bellum; Western Blue-eyed Grass

From Wildflowers to Butterflies

By on January 12, 2021 | Posted in: Profile

A photographer’s collections helped inspire the effort to save native trout in the Malheur rivers by Mac Lacy The sagebrush sea lost a fierce champion when Chris Christie passed away on December 15, 2020. A  long-time ONDA supporter, Chris was talented and thoughtful, cheekily humorous, and deeply committed to making the world a better...

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Steens Next 20

By on October 9, 2020 | Posted in: Uncategorized

by Senior Attorney Mac Lacy Steens Mountain is an extraordinary place. Known to the Northern Paiute as Tse’tse’ede, “the Cold One,” the mountain covers an ecologically distinctive, half-million acre landscape replete with specially protected public lands and rivers and a diversity of habitats essential to hundreds of species of fish and wildlife. Twenty years...

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