Steens Mountain Travel Plan

Steens Mountain Travel Plan

By Lace Thornberg on March 12, 2019 | Posted in:

Current Status Victorious! On appeal, the Ninth Circuit threw out BLM’s unlawful travel plan and critical wildlife habitat on Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon has been protected from motorized disruption. […]

Steens Mountain Fence Flagging with BHA

By Lisa Foster on February 21, 2019 | Posted in:

Protected: Malheur Refuge Fence Mapping 

By Genessa Goodman-Campbell on February 21, 2019 | Posted in:

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Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

By Lace Thornberg on February 18, 2019 | Posted in:

Steens Mountain

By Lace Thornberg on February 11, 2019 | Posted in:

The Creation Story
and the Malheur Cave

By Lace Thornberg on January 31, 2019 | Posted in: Uncategorized

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 […]

Journey

By Mark Darnell on November 2, 2018 | Posted in: Look Back

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 […]

Bikepacking the Steens Loop

By Ben Groeneveld on October 12, 2018 | Posted in: How-To, Where-to

If you’ve ever dreamed of a desert bike trip circling Steens Mountain, this post from Central Oregon Wheelers members Ben Groeneveld and Kevin Briggs won’t do anything to dissuade you.

10 Summer Adventures in Eastern Oregon

By Renee Patrick on July 19, 2018 | Posted in: Where-to

Escape the heat, or at least take your mind off the dog days of summer, with these 10 adventures found around Oregon’s high desert and along the Oregon Desert Trail […]

How-to: Go Birding at Malheur

By Lace Thornberg on April 4, 2018 | Posted in: How-To, Where-to

A guide to watching migrating birds at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for first-time visitors. Few events will put you in touch with the rhythms of the natural world quite […]