After 30-plus years, Dunn Dam was showing its age. It didn’t have adequate fish passage around it, and it was a safety hazard. We gradually had to stop using it, which essentially meant we lost the ability to irrigate about 2,500 acres of wetlands.
Written by Peter Pearsall/Map showing 1984 flooding at Malheur Refuge by USGS Located in the northernmost reach of the Great Basin, Malheur Lake in southeastern Oregon is a wildly fluctuating
Sadly, one of our longtime Friends, Dr. John Edgar Cornely, 77, of Larkspur, CO passed away on October 13, 2023, after a long battle with cancer.
Written by Peter Pearsall/Photos by Leland Dick In October 2022, members from the Burns Paiute Tribe participated in the first-ever ceremonial mule deer hunt at Malheur Refuge, in the Buena
Arborist Jon Brown arrived on September 15 to assess the wind-damaged tree. The front side of the trunk was completely dead and disconnected from the living back portion and the ground. He determined that height reduction was the first step and used a pole saw to reduce and/or remove the live branches that were tall enough to strike the Nature Store in the event of the whole tree failing.
