Fall Planting Trips

Author: Gena Goodman-Campbell  |  Published: October 3, 2022  |  Category: Notes from the Field

Desert streams and rivers are the lifeblood of Oregon’s high desert, but many of these essential riparian areas have been negatively impacted from over a century of grazing and other agricultural uses. A healthy streambank looks like a lush thicket with trees and shrubs providing shade for the stream. Lacking the streamside trees and shrubs, degraded streams are often too warm to support native fish and wildlife, and are even less resilient in the face of climate change, drought and wildfire.

ONDA’s riparian restoration work focuses on using science-based planting techniques to:

  • increase biodiversity in streamside ecosystems
  • decrease stream temperatures, and
  • provide a variety of other benefits for desert fish and wildlife that depend on these oases.

Join one of our fall planting trips to help bring about the transformation of degraded desert creeks into thriving, resilient waterways.

watch

Time Lapse: a night at Canyon Camp in six seconds

Time Lapse: a night at Canyon Camp in six seconds

listen

Owyhee Canyon Swallows Sparrows and Rushing Water

Owyhee Canyon Swallows Sparrows and Rushing Water

voices

Scott Bowler, ONDA member from Portland

Scott Bowler, ONDA member from Portland

The desert speaks for itself, but very softly. I support ONDA to promote and enable discovery of the amazing beauty and recreational opportunities of the high desert by much broader groups of people; and most especially to protect forever the full and diverse landscape of the Owyhee Canyonlands, a place without parallel or equal in our country.”