Category: Profile
Meet ONDA members, volunteers and partners.
Meet Three Healthcare Professionals Dedicated to the Desert
Author: Caelin Weiss | Published: April 14, 2021 | Category: Profile As we are all more acutely aware than ever, healthcare professionals and other frontline and essential workers play an immeasurable role in the wellbeing of our communities. We spoke with three ONDA members who are healthcare providers about what inspires them to support...
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Meet Four of ONDA’s Members in the Sciences
Author: Hana Sant | Published: April 5, 2021 | Category: Profile ONDA’s members come to us from a wide range of backgrounds, each with a unique path that has led them to an enduring love of Oregon’s desert. Here, we’re highlighting four members whose work in the sciences has proved to be a source...
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My Desert Adventure: Paddling Oregon’s Grand Canyon
Author: Ajay Sapre | Published: April 2, 2021 | Category: Profile A Portlander comes to understand that a trip down the Owyhee is about more than chasing rapids — it’s about experiencing the landscape itself. After moving to Oregon in 2016, I focused most of my paddling on rivers close to my home in Portland....
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Streamside Story: Victoria Fischella
Author: Joanna Zhang | Published: March 26, 2021 | Category: Profiles An avid rafter and river restoration specialist, Victoria Fischella has always been fascinated by the importance of rivers.
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2020 Conservationist of the Year
Scott Bowler When we reached Scott to let him know that we wanted to acknowledge him as ONDA’s 2020 Conservationist of the Year, he was out on a hike along Whychus Creek. It was a fitting place for him to accept this honor, out among the ponderosa pines, as this is an area ONDA...
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Meet the 2020 Alice
Elshoff Award Recipient
Author: Corinne Handelman | Published: January 19, 2021 | Category: Profile Meet John Cunningham Like many ONDA volunteers, John Cunningham is up for any challenge — and his positive attitude and long-standing commitment to supporting ONDA’s conservation mission have landed him the honor of receiving our 2020 Alice Elshoff Conservation Award. “After 30+ stewardship...
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From Wildflowers to Butterflies
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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Meet Joanna Zhang
A Conservation Leader in the Making Please allow us to introduce our newest staff member, Joanna Zhang, who will be serving as our Conservation Fellow for the next two years. She’ll focus on propelling our efforts to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands and see desert rivers designated as Wild & Scenic Rivers. As an ecology...
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Conserving Your Connection
“One of my biggest personal feelings of loss for this terrible pandemic is that I had to give up these ONDA field trips.” When ONDA had to cancel our field-based stewardship trips and community get-togethers as a result of COVID-19, we expected people to be disappointed. After all, we were, too. What surprised us...
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The Halfway Point
By Zavier Borja, Latino Outdoor Engagement Coordinator for Children’s Forest of Central Oregon The Painted Hills of eastern Oregon are one of the seven wonders that we have here in Oregon. Beyond the fact that it is a breathtaking geological structure out in what feels like the middle of nowhere, I also hold this...
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