Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rafting down the Owyhee River in the Owyhee Canyonlands A wilderness designation is the right way to protect the Owyhee River ...

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 ...

Prominently placed billboards and a flurry of direct-mail pieces are alerting Portlanders to a hot-button Oregon political issue—almost 500 miles away in Malheur County. The aim of the campaign, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – In a bipartisan effort, Oregon lawmakers are vowing to continue pushing for federal protection of Eastern Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands in 2025 following stalled bills in ...

Dr. Julie Weikel, a retired large animal veterinarian, has been fighting to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands in Southeastern Oregon for a long time. How long? “My daughter’s name is Owyhee, and she’s 43 ...

On the northern edge of Idaho’s Snake River Plain, one of the most developed landscapes in the state, lies an area that in contrast remains as it has been for thousands of years, a wilderness area ...

It is hard to believe that such beautiful and remote river canyons are not even recognized with a "Wild and Scenic" designation. The landscape of southern Idaho, eastern Oregon and northern Nevada is ...