Oregon boasts lots of scenic beauty, but these wonderful, remote hot springs near painted cliffs offer the opportunity for a ...

Just across the Cascade Mountains, in the high desert of juniper and sage, three of Oregon’s most prominent ... meeting what was once the bed of a river. It’s a spectacular sight, and humans ...

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The lower Owyhee is a unique fishing habitat for rainbow and brown trout. It's a popular destination for anglers because of ...

the desert regional director for the Wildlands Conservancy. County supervisor Jeff Hewitt, who represents the Fifth District, which includes Whitewater River, compared the use of signs to warnings ...

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popularly the Sonoran Desert toad—also the Colorado River toad or locally “the toad”—pops out of its underground burrow at the first hint of rain from the North American monsoon.

The Saraswati River, central to ancient Indian civilization, may still flow beneath the Thar Desert, as evidenced by geological studies and remote sensing techniques. Its disappearance is ...

Plans to scale back water usage from the imperiled Colorado River have been hindered by a ... that dry irrigation drains could threaten desert pupfish, an endangered species that calls the region ...