Steens Mountain Wilderness
The Steens Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area surrounding a portion of Steens Mountain of southeastern Oregon in the United States. The reserve falls within the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area (CMPA). Both the reserve and the CMPA are administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The wilderness area encompasses of the CMPA's total . of the Wilderness are protected from grazing and free of cattle. Topography The Steens Mountain Wilderness ranges in elevation from at the summit of Steens Mountain. The reserve features a variety of vegetative zones, from the arid sagebrush zone in the Alvord Desert, through the western juniper, mountain mahogany, mountain big sagebrush, quaking aspen, subalpine meadow, and subalpine grassland, to the snow cover zone. Steens Mountain is the largest fault-block mountain in North America. Pressure under the Earth's surface thrust the block upward approximately 20 million years ago, resulting in a steep ...
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Harney County, Oregon
Harney County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,495, making it the sixth-least populous county in Oregon. The county seat is Burns. Established in 1889, the county is named in honor of William S. Harney, a military officer of the period, who was involved in the Pig War and popular in the Pacific Northwest. Harney County is a rural county in southeastern Oregon.Noelle Crombie,Where is Burns? Harney County home to more cattle than people ''The Oregonian''/OregonLive (January 3, 2016).Harney County Transportation System Plan: Revised Final Draft
, Harney County Planning Department (June 2001), pp. 9-10. It is a five-hour drive from