Years ago, Roderick Nash and a friend ran a dory down the Owyhee River. This boat is at Greeley Bar on the Owyhee River, courtesy of Wapiti River Guides.

Dr. Roderick Frazier Nash, professor emeritus of history and environmental studies at the University of California Santa Barbara, is renown… Read more »

A group of BLM staff and volunteers, including author Joe Walicki, pose after a hike through the West Little Owyhee River Canyon in 1978. Photo courtesy Joe Walicki

ore than three decades ago, Joe Walicki made an eye-opening journey up the West Little Owyhee River Canyon. Here, with… Read more »

These are pigments artist and Ontario native Nancy Pobanz created out of small amounts of rock collected in the Owyhee Canyonlands. Courtesy Nancy Pobanz.

Artist Nancy Pobanz grew up in Ontario and returns to the high desert time and again to seek inspiration and… Read more »

Sandals such as these, which are more than 9,000 years old, have been found throughout southeastern Oregon. Photo courtesy of the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

Dr. Tom Connolly is the archaeological research director for the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History &… Read more »