Federal plans unveiled this month sought common ground with conservation groups that want the government to protect a vast sweep of southeastern Oregon and those who fear such protections will erase ...

Part of the Owyhee River Canyonlands. An effort is underway to backstop legislation in Congress with a national monument designation by President Biden. National monument protection is needed in the ...

A push to preserve more than a million acres of wildlands in Eastern Oregon is taking on new urgency in the final months of the Biden presidency, as environmentalists and political leaders from ...

If you’re looking to escape the usual forest trails and lakes in Oregon, the state’s desert parks offer a different kind of..

OWYHEE CANYONLANDS, Ore.—Drive 50 miles from Boise, Idaho, past the suburbs, exurbs and farms into Oregon, and you’ll find yourself in the largest conservation opportunity left in the continental U.S.

Recently, I attended a showing of the documentary Into the Canyon. It is the story of two men hiking the length of the Grand Canyon to raise awareness of ongoing threats to the canyon despite its ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A debate is intensifying over how to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands, a vast million-acre expanse of rugged, remote land in far eastern Oregon where upland bird hunting and cattle ...

Found in the far reaches of eastern Oregon, just a few miles from the Idaho border south of Ontario, Lake Owyhee State Park is a something of an oasis: a remote paradise for high desert wanderers, ...

A compromise over managing the Owyhee Canyonlands worked out by ranchers, environmentalists, hunters and others has drawn a powerful opponent – U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz. The Republican congressman from ...

ONTARIO — One of the country’s most sparsely populated and persistently defended high desert wild lands may soon be subject to frequent sonic booms and shrieking fighter jets. The Mountain Home Air ...

The Owyhee Canyonlands are in remote southeastern Oregon and include Leslie Gulch Tuff, which is rhyolite ash that erupted 15.5 million years ago. (Bob Bush Photo/Getty Images) A proposal to protect ...

These often-overlooked desert spots prove you don’t need crowds or big-name parks to experience true desert beauty.