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The Lake Fork West Owyhee River is a short tributary of the West Little Owyhee River that begins near the Cat, Bend, and Pedroli springs near the eastern boundary of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation (for the Paiute and Shoshone native tribes) near the old U.S. Army cavalry post of Fort McDermitt (1865 / 1866-1889), in southern Malheur ...
The Owyhee River Wilderness was created by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2009. Also created in the Omnibus Land Act were five additional southwestern Idaho wilderness areas in Owyhee County, collectively known as the Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness Areas: [4] [5]
Owyhee Dam (National ID # OR00582) is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Owyhee River in Eastern Oregon near Adrian, Oregon, United States. Completed in 1932 during the Great Depression , the dam generates electricity and provides irrigation water for several irrigation districts in Oregon and neighboring Idaho .
The Owyhee Canyonlands, with stunning red gulches, winding rivers and a moon-like landscape where a volcano with a caldera once 600 times larger than Mount St. Helens erupted, stands as the ...
Under the proposal by Gov. Tina Kotek to establish a national monument in southeast Oregon's Owyhee Canyonlands, portions of the Owyhee River currently not carrying Wild and Scenic designations ...
News about Owyhee River protection, updates to the Northwest Forest Plan and repairs to a frequently traveled road to Terwilliger Hot Springs.
The upper 20.8 miles (33.5 km) of the North Fork Owyhee River, from the Idaho–Oregon border to the upstream boundary of the wilderness, are part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Of this total, 15.1 miles (24.3 km) are classified as wild and the remaining 5.7 miles (9.2 km) are classified "recreational".
The Middle Fork Owyhee River is a tributary of the North Fork Owyhee River in Malheur County, Oregon, and Owyhee County, Idaho, in the United States. It forms along Juniper Mountain, south of the Owyhee Mountains in Idaho. From its headwaters, it flows southwest then curves northwest to and beyond the Idaho–Oregon border, then turns north to ...