Steens Mountain Fence Flagging with BHA
Our second year partnering with BHA to flag barbed wire fence on Steens Mountain to prevent sage-grouse collisions.
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Locate and map fence within the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for future removal or retrofit projects.
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Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Fence Pull
Our annual work trip to the Malheur Refuge to remove obsolete fence near the refuge headquarters.
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The Creation Story and the Malheur Cave
For the Paiute of the Great Basin of the American West, winter is storytelling season. Around the fires of Paiute camps and villages, storytellers passed on tribal visions of the animal people and the human people, their origins and values, their spiritual and natural environment, and their culture and daily lives. The book “Legends...
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2019 Stewardship Trip Registration Opens
The moment you’ve been waiting for. ONDA’s line up of stewardship trips for 2019 will open for registration on the morning of February 25. Where will you go to improve the desert – to a deep gorge in the Steens Mountain Wilderness, to the shoulder of Hart Mountain, or into the John Day River Basin?...
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Journey
If you read part one of Mark’s journey, you will recall his original plan to spend two months in the spring visiting lesser-known wilderness study areas (WSAs) and to bring back pictures for possible publication in ONDA’s upcoming Wild Desert Calendar. Although his aim was to photograph these areas, his mission turned in to something unexpected, much...
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