The Northern Great Basin Experimental Range is a large livestock range operated by the

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering ...

's Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center and the

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's Agricultural Research Service. The range is located in the

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and covers an area of of land owned by the

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and a further of land owned by the

State of Oregon Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idah ...

. The Northern Great Basin Experimental Range is a testing ground for the study of fauna growth for purposes of livestock grazing in eastern Oregon's desert environment. Experimental activities are coordinated out of a research station in

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. The local populace wanted scientific study of summertime floods that originated on mountain watersheds and were seriously damaging farms and rural communities. Severe flooding during the latter part of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century led to the establishment of what was then-called the Utah Experiment Station in 1912.

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A video tour of the Northern Great Basin Experimental Range

Official website

US Forest Service
Oregon State University United States Department of Agriculture facilities

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