Presidents can designate national monuments unilaterally. But as WW reported last year, Oregon’s senior Democratic U.S. Sen.

A proposal to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands in southeast Oregon did not make it through Congress at the end of the year but members of Oregon’s delegation said they’ll try anew in 2025. The proposed ...

It’s not that the people of Southeast Oregon are against protecting the Owyhee River Canyonlands. The Owyhee is in their backyard, and it is a place they love, cherish and respect. They want it ...

I’m working the North Fork of the Smith River ... that these two for Oregon are included.” In June 2023, Wyden introduced the Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act (S.

A proposal to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands in southeast Oregon did not make it through ... canyonlands and a 15-mile stretch of the Owyhee River under the protection of the National Wilderness ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A bill introduced by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) to add federal protections to Eastern Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands passed the Senate — creating a pathway to pass ...

The two snails occur in small, isolated populations in the Owyhee River in the Owyhee Canyonlands, a remote, rugged corner of eastern Oregon known as a geological wonder. Both snails are threatened by ...

The U.S. Senate’s passage of the Owyhee Canyonlands wilderness bill ... Senate Bill 1890 would protect more than 1 million acres in eastern Oregon as wilderness and add flexibility to grazing ...

An effort to protect nearly 1 million acres of eastern Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands passed the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent Friday night, Sen. Ron Wyden announced. The matter now moves to the ...

A proposal to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands in southeast Oregon did not make it through ... canyonlands and a 15-mile stretch of the Owyhee River under the protection of the National Wilderness ...