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

Lower Owyhee River watershed, Trout Creek, Oregon Canyon Mountains and other landscapes near to the historic and present homelands of the Yahooskin-Paiute peoples. “We’ve been to D.C. a number ...

It encompasses the Owyhee Canyonlands, one of the state’s most-known but — as of yet — unprotected natural places. Conservationists and others, including Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, have called ...

The 32-minute film Resilience Rising: Echoes of Owyhee will premiere Feb. 2 at the Clinton Street Theater, followed by a ...

The U.S. Senate’s passage of the Owyhee Canyonlands wilderness bill leaves advocates optimistic that protections can be enacted in 2025. The Senate by unanimous consent Dec. 20 passed a bill ...

Instead of implementing meaningful protections for the Oregon side of the Owyhee Canyonlands ... known as Oregon’s Grand Canyon, are shaped more by efforts to appease the livestock industry than by a ...

The Owyhee Canyonlands are in remote southeastern ... Jeff Merkley to pass a bill protecting the area known as Oregon’s Grand Canyon from overdevelopment and overgrazing, while maintaining ...

Utah sought to have the case elevated to the federal Supreme Court without first wending its way through lower courts. The ...

The choices are complicated, however, by a diversity of supporters and detractors. Often called Oregon’s Grand Canyon, the area is part of the 2.5 million-acre Owyhee watershed, which stretches over ...

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.