Expansive Protections Secured for the Greater Hart-Sheldon
Author: Mark Salvo | Published: May 21, 2025 | Category: In the News This article originally appeared in the Spring + Summer 2025 Desert Ramblings Newsletter. Finally, a management plan […]
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Renewable Energy Development in Oregon’s High Desert
Author: Mark Salvo | Published: October 10, 2024 | Category: Deep Dive Something must be done, and quickly. Climate change is an existential threat to Oregon’s high desert. We must […]
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Oregon’s Best Conservation Opportunity
Author: Mark Salvo | Published: May 29, 2024 | Category: Coming Up This article originally appeared in the Spring + Summer 2024 Desert Ramblings After three decades of advocacy, this […]
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Sage-Grouse: Denizen of the Sagebrush Sea
Author: Mark Salvo | Published: October 19, 2023 | Category: Species Spotlight This article originally appeared in the Fall + Winter 2023 Desert Ramblings The future of this enduring species […]
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Saving the Owyhee from Jet Fighters, Sonic Booms and Flammable Flares
Author: Mark Salvo | Published: November 1, 2022 | Category: Coming Up File this under “looming threat”: ONDA has learned that the U.S. Air Force may release its final plan […]
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Seven Steps to Save Sage-Grouse
Author: Mark Salvo | Published: April 5, 2022 | Category: Deep Dive After three and half decades of monitoring sage-grouse habitat, sorting through the science, engaging in innumerable federal, state […]
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A Closer Look at the Proposed Sutton Mountain National Monument
Author: Mark Salvo | Published: March 1, 2022 | Category: In the News In November 2021, Oregon’s Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden introduced the Sutton Mountain and Painted Hills […]
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New National Monument Proposed for Sutton Mountain
On November 3, 2021, Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden introduced the Sutton Mountain and Painted Hills Area Wildfire Resiliency Preservation and Economic Enhancement Act in Congress today. This legislation […]
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America the Beautiful
Reaction to the Biden administration’s 30 by 30 report In May 2021, the Biden administration published “Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful,” a highly anticipated report on the president’s commitment to […]
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The New Secretary of the Interior
All in for Haaland By now you’ve probably heard that the U.S. Senate confirmed former Congresswoman Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. The bipartisan vote on March 15, 2021 […]
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