Steens Mountain: 25 Years Later
Author: Bill Marlett | Published: October 30, 2025 | Category: In the News This guest column originally appeared in The Bulletin on October 24, 2025. Looking Back on a Landmark Achievement Twenty-five years ago this month, something remarkable happened in Oregon’s high desert. On October 30, 2000, President Bill Clinton signed into law the...
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Desert Trip Tips
Author: James Parsons | Published: October 24, 2025 | Category: How-To This article originally appeared in the Fall + Winter 2025 Desert Ramblings Newsletter. Experience the far-reaches of Oregon’s high desert What comes to mind when you think of Oregon’s desert public lands? Maybe it’s the vast expanses of sagebrush steppe that support an...
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In the Name of Desert Defense
Author: Ryan Houston| Published: October 22, 2025 | Category: Deep Dive This article originally appeared in the Fall + Winter 2025 Desert Ramblings Newsletter. Protecting public lands in Oregon’s high desert from new threats What comes to mind when you think of Oregon’s desert public lands? Maybe it’s the vast expanses of sagebrush steppe...
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Wilderness Inventories, and Why They Matter
Author: Mark Salvo | Published: September 24, 2025 | Category: Brief Update This article originally appeared in the Fall + Winter 2025 Desert Ramblings Newsletter. The foundation of public land management Fragile, vulnerable and finite, Oregon’s desert wild lands are endlessly valuable. These public lands protect wildlife, provide for climate resiliency, preserve cultural resources,...
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Supporting Tribal Leaders in Conservation
Author: Gena Goodman-Campbell | Published: September 18, 2025 | Category: Notes from the Desert This article originally appeared in the Fall + Winter 2025 Desert Ramblings Newsletter. ONDA’s ongoing partnership with Tribal and Indigenous communities Oregon’s high desert is the homeland of a diversity of Tribal and Indigenous people with deep cultural, religious and...
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Species Spotlight: Redband Trout
Author: Scott Bowler| Published: May 21, 2025 | Category: Species Spotlight This article originally appeared in the Spring + Summer 2025 Desert Ramblings Newsletter. Conservation efforts targeting this iconic desert fish give us hope for a bright future. Chances are, if you come across a native trout in a river east of Oregon’s Cascades,...
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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 for this iconic region. Decades of organizing and advocacy paid off when ONDA secured a tremendous achievement for the Greater Hart-Sheldon in January. Renowned...
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The People Who Make Us
Author: Renee Schiavone | Published: April 24, 2025 | Category: Profile This article originally appeared in the Spring + Summer 2025 Desert Ramblings What fuels conservation success. I traversed a mile across a hilly, sagebrush-speckled landscape to find the group and was already sweating before the real work began. When I finally spotted them,...
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Securing Historic Wildlands and Wildlife Protections in the Greater Hart-Sheldon
Author: Mac Lacy | Published: April 15, 2025 | Category: Deep Dive A deep dive into the history of the Lakeview Resource Management Plan and the future of Oregon’s Greater Hart-Sheldon Nearly 1.2 million acres of Greater Hart-Sheldon wildlands and wildlife habitat now benefit from dramatically improved conservation management following a historic Bureau of...
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How To: Photograph Wildlife in the Desert
Author: Tara Lemezis | Published Date: April 14, 2025 | Category: How-To This article was originally published in The Source Weekly on April 9, 2025. A guide to thoughtful wildlife photography in eastern Oregon’s high desert. Eastern Oregon’s high desert is a land of striking contrasts — sunbaked plateaus meet rugged rimrock, deep...
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