Hidden in Oregon’s remote southeast, the Owyhee River Gorge stuns with golden cliffs, turquoise water, and silence deeper ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just southwest of Boise lies one of the last vast swaths of solitude in the United States. The Owyhee Canyonlands, with stunning red gulches, winding rivers and a moon-like landscape where a volcano ...

Gov. Tina Kotek threw her support behind the latest movement to establish a national monument in southeast Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands. Kotek’s support is the latest in a chorus of voices from ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Gov. Tina Kotek just made one last plea to President Joe Biden to protect a stunning stretch of the state known as “Oregon’s Grand Canyon” before he leaves office. Kotek wrote to ...

U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz observes the Owyhee landscape. (Jon Muyskens and the Oregon Department of Transportation) U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) announced today he will introduce a bill aimed at ...

On a Friday voice vote, the U.S. Senate passed the Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act, which would designate more than 1 million acres as federally protected wilderness centered around ...

Oregon, Nevada and Idaho conservationists are suing the U.S. Air Force, arguing that expanded low-altitude F-15 fighter jet flights over the Owyhee Canyonlands will harm the “quiet and solitude” of ...

A hunter is shown on public land in the Owyhee Desert in this 2019 file photo. Roger Phillips Last week I was on a mountaintop in the West, looking over a vast expanse of our nation’s public lands. A ...