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Author: Corie Harlan | Published: November 20, 2020 | Updated: May 13, 2021 | Category: How-To The Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act provides Malheur County with vital economic development […]
Read MoreMeet Six Steady ONDA Members
ONDA turned 33 this year, and more than a few of our members have been with us ever since our founding in the mid-eighties. We love the perspective that those […]
Read MoreA Major Milestone for the Owyhee Canyonlands
An impressive and critically important swath of sagebrush steppe habitat in eastern Oregon poised to gain protection as Wilderness On November 7, 2019, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden introduced the Malheur […]
Read MoreHigh Desert Speaker Series Bigger and Better in 2020
Each year, ONDA’s High Desert Speaker Series highlights the wildlife, geology, culture, history, recreation and other unique and worthy-of-protection elements of Oregon’s high desert. In 2019, we were amazed by […]
Read MoreGet to Know the Owyhee River
One of Oregon’s 58 officially designated Wild and Scenic Rivers. Located in southeastern Oregon and reaching across the corner of Idaho to its headwaters in northeastern Nevada, 35 percent of […]
Read MoreThree Tiny Creatures of Oregon’s High Desert
Racing pronghorn. Soaring golden eagles. Charging salmon. Oregon’s high desert pulses with the movement of these great creatures, but it’s good to remember that the desert’s iconic animals, birds and […]
Read MoreYes we can, by dam!
An ONDA volunteer recounts her first taste of field work during a South Fork Crooked River riparian restoration trip in October 2018. By Eleanor Burke
Read MoreHow to find a hot spring in the dark
ONDA’s Owyhee Canyonlands Coordinator Corie Harlan shares a lesson learned from a particularly epic trip into the Owyhee. Three hours into our drive to Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands, the AC quit […]
Read MoreWhat Now for Sage-Grouse
Our Efforts to Protect an Imperiled Species Greater sage-grouse, a symbol of the Intermountain West, are in trouble. Despite the clear evidence of the species’ decline the Department of the […]
Read MoreHere’s what you made possible in 2017
2017 has been somewhat akin to being caught on an exposed rocky outcropping in a lightning storm. But like the heavenly smell of sage after a good rain, there’s a […]
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