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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just southwest of Boise lies one of the last vast swaths of solitude in the United States. The Owyhee Canyonlands, with stunning ...

Amanda Peacher / OPB Following the militant occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the Obama administration is weighing whether to move forward with a huge land conservation proposal in ...

A bill that would protect about 1.1 million acres of the Owyhee Canyonlands in Oregon as wilderness while preserving grazing and encouraging local decisions has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate.

Legislation to protect southeast Oregon's Owyhee Canyonlands failed to make the year-end spending bill in Congress, but Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, said he remains committed to finding a path forward in ...

The Owyhee Initiative (OI) wilderness and public lands legislation passed Congress in 2009 as the Owyhee Public Land Management part of an Omnibus package bill. Hoopla on the bill’s ten-year ...

March marked the tenth anniversary since the Owyhee River Wilderness was designated. This article first appeared on Wilderness River Outfitters’ blog. Visit www.wildernessriver.com for more ...

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell said Tuesday that she is not aware of any coordination between her office and the White House about a conservation proposal for the Owyhee. Last year, ...

Senator Wyden and Senator Merkley have introduced the ‘‘Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act’’ (MCEOA). The senators can be commended for taking on such a controversial issue and trying to ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law on Sept. 3, 1964. In Oregon, there's a push to use that law to protect the unique Owyhee Canyonlands as wilderness. The ...

We hear a lot about the custom, culture and tradition of livestock ranching, and we’ve all seen the images of the chap-wearing cowboy mounted proudly on his horse riding behind his herd. But these ...