A debate is intensifying over how to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands, a vast million-acre expanse of rugged, remote land in far eastern Oregon where upland bird hunting and cattle grazing have long ...
The Owyhee Canyonlands are in remote southeastern Oregon and include Leslie Gulch Tuff, which is rhyolite ash that erupted 15.5 million years ago. (Bob Bush/Getty Images) A proposal to protect the ...