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Badger
Badger
Badgers are generally nocturnal, but, in remote areas with no human encroachment, they are routinely observed foraging during the day. They prefer open areas with grasslands, which can include parklands, farms, and treeless areas with crumbly soil and a supply of rodent prey.
Badgers are born blind, furred, and helpless. Their eyes open at four to six weeks.
Latin name: Taxidea taxus
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Bobcat
Bobcat
Found only in North America, where it is the most common wildcat, the bobcat takes its common name from its stubby, or “bobbed,” tail. The cats range in length from two to four feet and weigh 14 to 29 pounds. Bobcats mainly hunt rabbits and hares, but they will also eat rodents, birds, bats, and even adult deer.
Latin name: Lynx rufus fasciatus
What is the Southeastern Oregon Resource Management Plan?
The Bureau of Land Management creates Resource Management Plans for planning areas to guide their decision-making about the lands they manage.
Following two decades of successful advocacy and precedent-setting legal action led by ONDA, in 2018 the BLM began working on the Southeastern Oregon Resource Management Plan Amendment.
The process will create the blueprint for how nearly 5 million acres in southeastern Oregon — including beloved places in the Owyhee Canyonlands like Leslie Gulch, Three Forks and Birch Creek — are managed.
For public lands advocates, commenting during the Resource Management Planning process is an important opportunity to shape how lands are managed for decades to come. This process provides the chance to help protect sage-grouse habitat, determine where off-road vehicles can and cannot travel, and protect wild desert places to camp, hike and bird.
Three main issues – Lands with Wilderness Characteristics, Off-Road Vehicle and Travel Management, and Livestock Grazing – will be addressed in this amendment process.
Understand these and you’ll have the background to provide substantive input that the BLM needs to consider.
Submit your comments
Comment now to make your voice heard during this once-in-a-generation desert planning process.
Dive deeper
The Resource Management Plan and relevant information can be found here, on BLM’s ePlanning webpage.
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Share Your Vision for Southeastern Oregon
Nearly 5 million acres of public land in Owyhee Canyonlands need your voice this summer. The Bureau of Land Management has released its Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment for Southeastern Oregon. ONDA’s assessment of the BLM’s preferred alternative is that it: fails to adequately protect lands with wilderness characteristics disregards local stakeholder input fails to […]
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Oregon Natural Desert Association’s conservation program protects the most spectacular places in Oregon’s high desert, including such treasured spots as Steens Mountain, the Oregon Badlands, the John Day River, and the Owyhee Canyonlands. We support the fish and wildlife found within these wild areas, and we guide people in finding new ways to experience this […]
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