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During the middle to late Miocene epoch (approximately 8-12 million years ago), a series of volcanic eruptions poured Columbia River flood basalts across the Pacific Northwest, covering portions of southern Washington, western Idaho, and northern and eastern Oregon with extensive lava flows.
Written by Peter Pearsall/Photo by Peter Pearsall “The mountains form a ribbon of familiar landscape separating two vast spaces, blue haze above, a mosaic of cracked mud below. The desert
Written by Peter Pearsall/Photo by Dan Streiffert Winter thus far in the Harney Basin has been exceedingly mild. Where last year there were snowdrifts several feet deep even on the
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