Tell Oregon’s Senators: It’s Time for an Owyhee Canyonlands National Monument

John Aylward

The Owyhee Canyonlands is not protected yet and the clock is ticking on 2024.

This is why we are calling on Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley to do everything in their power to protect the Owyhee before the end of the year. This includes continuing to champion their legislation protecting more than 1.1 million acres of Wilderness, while also calling on President Biden to prepare a national monument designation for the landscape.

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Oregon’s first desert wilderness

Oregon’s first desert wilderness

Steens Mountain: Oregon’s first desert wilderness

On October 30, 2000, Congress passed the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act, finishing the work that had taken ONDA and the other members of the Steens-Alvord Coalition decades  

Steens Mountain is a land of startling contrasts: dramatic u-shaped

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Cottonwood Canyon Riparian Soundscape

Cottonwood Canyon Riparian Soundscape

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Sarah Graham, Sage Sustainers Member

Sarah Graham, Sage Sustainers Member

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