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Drewsey SVIM inventory - early 1980's : Photographs taken by BLM's Soil Vegetation Inventory Method (SVIM) inventory and mapping crew near Drewsey, Oregon on the Burns BLM District.

Drewsey SVIM inventory - early 1980's

Photographs taken by BLM's Soil Vegetation Inventory Method (SVIM) inv ...

Updated: Apr 23, 2007 1:18pm PST

Protecting Kids - OR - Censorship?

Is it objectionable to expose objectionable activity in an open public ...

Updated: Apr 22, 2007 11:20am PST

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Obscene Dead Predator Display aka Exposing How Much Some Ranchers Hate Predators

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Updated: Jan 08, 2006 10:33pm PST

Alvord Allotment - 1986 : Winter pasture of Alvord allotment, Burns BLM District, eastern Oregon. The size of the Winter pasture was about 250,000 acres (nearly 400 square miles) when these photos were taken, making it one of the largest single pastures administered by the Bureau of Land Management.

The photos in this gallery are believed to have been taken in June, 1986 but may have been taken in June, 1987.

Alvord Allotment - 1986

Winter pasture of Alvord allotment, Burns BLM District, eastern Oregon ...

Updated: Jan 07, 2006 9:55am PST

Camp Creek - 1985 : Camp Creek. Prineville BLM District, central Oregon

Camp Creek - 1985

Camp Creek. Prineville BLM District, central Oregon

Updated: Jan 04, 2006 6:07pm PST

Bear Creek Demonstration Project - 1986 : Bear Creek Riparian Grazing Demonstration Project, Prineville BLM District, central Oregon. (note: photos in this gallery are believed to have been taken in June, 1986 but could have been taken in June, 1987,)

"BCset"s group scenes by area and across years. Ascending Bcsets progress upstream through the project.

Bear Creek Demonstration Project - 1986

Bear Creek Riparian Grazing Demonstration Project, Prineville BLM Dist ...

Updated: Jan 04, 2006 5:27pm PST

Crooked River Juniper Control - 1986 : Oregon's Prineville BLM District conducted a series of vegetation conversion projects intended to create "temporary meadows" in areas dominated by western juniper. The juniper trees were hand-cut and the cleared areas were burned the following year. Cleared areas were generally rested from grazing through at least two growing seasons following burning to allow for natural revegetation without reseeding.

Grazing had not yet been resumed when the photos of this particular project were taken. Soils were generally sandy loams on north facing slopes. Prominent species in the cleared areas were generally prairie junegrass, squirreltail, and green rabbitbrush. It is believed that these photos were taken in June, 1986, but they may have been taken in June, 1987.

Crooked River Juniper Control - 1986

Oregon's Prineville BLM District conducted a series of vegetation conv ...

Updated: Jan 04, 2006 4:00pm PST

Bear Creek Demonstration Project - 1985 : Bear Creek Riparian Grazing Demonstration Project, Prineville BLM District, central Oregon.

"BCset"s group scenes by area and across years. Ascending BCsets progress upstream through the project.

Bear Creek Demonstration Project - 1985

Bear Creek Riparian Grazing Demonstration Project, Prineville BLM Dist ...

Updated: Jan 03, 2006 10:34am PST

Bear Creek Demonstration Project - 1998 : Bear Creek Riparian Grazing Demonstration Project, Prineville BLM District, central Oregon.

"BCset"s group scenes by area and across years. Ascending Bcsets progress upstream through the project.

Bear Creek Demonstration Project - 1998

Bear Creek Riparian Grazing Demonstration Project, Prineville BLM Dist ...

Updated: Jan 01, 2006 1:57pm PST

Most Popular Photos

11. Sacrifice area around water troughs, looking east with Horse Mountain (?) in background.

Image Status: Public Domain
Publisher: rangebiome.org
Credit: Larry Walker
Date: June, 1986?
Location: Burns BLM District, near Alvord Desert, eastern Oregon, saddle between Mickey Basin and east side of winter pasture.

24. Dunes (foreground), north arm of Alvord Desert (middle), and east face of Steens Mountain (background)

Image Status: Public Domain
Publisher: rangebiome.org
Credit: Larry Walker
Date: June, 1986?
Location: Burns BLM District, near Alvord Desert, eastern Oregon

01. Looking west from just inside winter pasture. East face of Steens mountain in background, tall trees are at Alvord Ranch headquarters, foreground is private land.

Image Status: Public Domain
Publisher: rangebiome.org
Credit: Larry Walker
Date: June, 1986?
Location: Burns BLM District, near Alvord Desert, eastern Oregon

BCsetB. Beaver dam and pond.

Image Status: Public Domain
Publisher: rangebiome.org
Credit: Larry Walker
Date: June, 1986?
Location: Prineville BLM District, Bear Creek, central Oregon

09. Near climax range site. Bluebunch wheatgrass with rhizome like features.

Image Status: Public Domain
Publisher: rangebiome.org
Credit: BLM SVIM crew
Date: Early 1980's
Location: near Drewsey, Oregon. Burns BLM District.

20. Lighter areas are mostly spiney hopsage/budsage and darker areas are mostly shadscale plant communities. East face of Steens Mountain in background.

Image Status: Public Domain
Publisher: rangebiome.org
Credit: Larry Walker
Date: June, 1986?
Location: Burns BLM District, near Alvord Desert, eastern Oregon, east side of winter pasture.

13. Looking along ridge towards Steens Mountain (background). Spiney hopsage/budsage (lighter) and shadscale (darker) plant communities. Not shown: spine hopsage/budsage transitions to big sagebrush/spiney hopsage and then to big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass as soil depth and elevation increase in this area. Also: there are small pockets of black sagebrush within the shadscale plant communities, generally on north facing slopes.

Image Status: Public Domain
Publisher: rangebiome.org
Credit: Larry Walker
Date: June, 1986?
Location: Burns BLM District, near Alvord Desert, eastern Oregon, ridge between Mickey Basin and east side of winter pasture.

12. Sacrifice area around water troughs, looking east with Horse Mountain (?) in background.

Image Status: Public Domain
Publisher: rangebiome.org
Credit: Larry Walker
Date: June, 1986?
Location: Burns BLM District, near Alvord Desert, eastern Oregon, saddle between Mickey Basin and east side of winter pasture.

02. Mickey Depression. Looking north.

Image Status: Public Domain
Publisher: rangebiome.org
Credit: Larry Walker
Date: June, 1986?
Location: Burns BLM District, near Alvord Desert, eastern Oregon, Mickey Depression

10. About 7 feet of sediment accumulation and stabilization after about 15 years of protection from grazing. Primary floodplain now healthy and previously intermittent stream is now perennial within exclosure, even in dry years.

Image Status: Public Domain
Publisher: rangebiome.org
Credit: Larry Walker
Date: June, 1986?
Location: Prineville BLM District, Camp Creek, central Oregon. Inside grazing exclosure.

Comparison: Pre-project plant community left, post-project plant community right.

Image Status: Public Domain
Publisher: rangebiome.org
Credit: Larry Walker
Date: June, 1986?
Location: Prineville BLM District, Crooked River drainage above Prineville Reservoir, central Oregon

Image Status: Public Domain
Publisher: rangebiome.org
Credit: Larry Walker
Date: June, 1986?
Location: Prineville BLM District, Crooked River drainage above Prineville Reservoir, central Oregon

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