Protect Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands

Protect Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands

By Genessa Goodman-Campbell on October 24, 2017 | Posted in:

Please sign the petition urging our elected leaders to help permanently protect Oregon’s spectacular Owyhee!

Jordan Craters

By tmbr on October 22, 2017 | Posted in:

The 27-square-mile ovaline lava flow of Jordan Craters is one of the most recent volcanic flows in Oregon. The origin of the flow is Coffeepot Crater, a deep cavity at the far northeastern part of the flow. Walking in and around Coffeepot and exploring its side pits, tubes and caves makes for a great...

Sage Society: Sustaining Desert Conservation

By Corinne Handelman on October 12, 2017 | Posted in: A Conversation With

Retired science teacher Scott Bowler is a proud member of ONDA’s Sage Society, the community of advocates and donors who live their values by sustaining critical conservation efforts year-round with monthly contributions. We recently spoke with Scott about his decades-long commitment to sustaining Oregon conservation efforts through volunteering, advocacy, and the Sage Society. ONDA: Tell...

Owyhee Canyonlands

By tmbr on October 9, 2017 | Posted in:

How to Talk to Your Friends about Public Lands

By Lace Thornberg on September 6, 2017 | Posted in: How-To

For most outdoor recreationists, talking about being out in nature comes, well, naturally. We share photos from our trips. We rave about the views we enjoyed and the wildlife we encountered. We invite our friends to join us on our next adventure. But, when it comes to talking about the policies that govern the public...

Owyhee Beckoning

By Corie Harlan on May 30, 2017 | Posted in: Where-to

Julie Weikel grew up in ‘ION’ country, the area where Idaho, Oregon and Nevada’s borders meet. She worked for over four decades in the area as a large animal vet, building an intimate, deep knowledge of the Owyhee’s people, history, land, water and wildlife. She’s traveled extensively throughout the Owyhee Canyonlands and explored many...

Kirk Richardson: Alice Elshoff Award winner

By Corinne Handelman on May 29, 2017 | Posted in: A Conversation With

For more than a decade, Kirk Richardson has been a strong voice for protecting Oregon’s high desert. He’s served on the Oregon Natural Desert Association Board of Directors, helped dream up the Live Monumental effort to protect areas like the Owyhee through his position at KEEN Footwear, and now is the recipient of the...

Climate change in the sagebrush sea

By Corinne Handelman on April 24, 2017 | Posted in: A Conversation With

Dr. Megan Creutzburg is a researcher at Oregon State University’s Institute for Natural Resources, where she provides technical coordination for the Oregon Sage Grouse Conservation Partnership (SageCon). With climate marches happening across the nation on Saturday, ONDA’s Corinne Handelman sat down with Megan for an interview about her research on sagebrush landscapes and climate change...

Celebrating 30 years of high desert conservation

By Corinne Handelman on March 14, 2017 | Posted in: Look Back

For three decades, ONDA has been a strong, consistent voice for Oregon’s high desert. It all began in 1987 with extraordinary people concerned about an extraordinary place, and today has blossomed into the only organization that works exclusively on behalf of eastern Oregon’s high desert public lands and waterways. It’s been more than three...

Oregon breweries call for protection of Owyhee Canyonlands

By Corie Harlan on February 1, 2017 | Posted in: In the News, Uncategorized

Over two dozen Oregon craft beer brewers from around the state have joined together to call for the permanent protection of the Owyhee Canyonlands. Ross Putnam, cofounder of Base Camp Brewing Company, shares why his brewery got involved and why it’s important to protect the Owyhee, now. In the fall of 2015, we packed...