Thank you for this remarkable video. I have visited Steens Mountain and the Hart Mountain hot spring campground many times. What memories! It was good to see more of other places I was not able to go: Alvord, Pueblo, Owyhee. Excellent use of Google Earth to give overviews followed by your own excellent photographs. I have my own treasured photographs from those places and I do know how to appreciate good work of that type. Cudos and thanks! At 83 I may not be able to see it again for real.
@@WeirdOleHippy Your lovely comment truly touched me. Thank you for taking the time to make such meaningful and insightful observations. Yours is the reaction every serious photographer desires. I hope it's not your last time, but if you can't get there, I hope you'll enjoy my many other recent videos on the channel. Thank you!
At last an appropriate tribute to an area of Oregon seldom visited. On the other hand I hope the Steens, for one, will remain free from crowds & because of its relative isolation, not to mention the special kind of beauty that many people have little appreciation for, it will remain an unspoiled gem of Mother Nature that I will cherish always. Thanks so much for posting this although has Frenchglen shrunk even more since 2007? At that time there was a very small elementary school & a local population of around 40 people. I will check the present population figures.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments. I agree it's a double-edged sword: if no one goes to see these special public lands, there will be no one to stand up to protect them from possible development. They need advocates to help permanently protect them.
Good news is most people don't like to be away from the trees. I talked with a couple from Bend a few weeks ago and I mentioned the desert outback. I was pleased to hear they did not like the deserts and preferred to stay in the cascades, which these days are very crowded. I believe that were transplants from Portland area.
@@TheCactusjack1 I agree, I was raised on the OR. Coast, when I was 26 moved to southern Idaho for about 4 years drove me batty the people were great, met my husband there, but the scenery, I'm not a desert person. Don't like to be away from the trees. Soon we could, came back to the coast. When a bad storm hit 2 yrs later, did a lot of damage to the house we rented, We decided to move to Klamath county. Found an area that had the right amount of trees, & rivers. Bought a house in a small town, been here ever since, We're not transplants from Portland or any big city. I dislike cities a lot more than I dislike deserts.
This was amazing. I enjoyed this tremendously. Thank you so much for all of the hard work putting together this presentation. We are truly fortunate to have these lands and such emblematic beauty. We must always treasure and fight for them.
Enjoy ed your videos. Sent them to my son in law from Roseburg Oregon. You 2 have a lot in common. He loves hiking and photography he’s from Colorado. Now living in Oregon.
This is the best video of this part of Oregon there is thanks for all the geologic explanations, as a kid we never ventured east of Bend, finally at the age of 66 i made to fort rock it was fascinating.
Gosh....the Google Earth aerials were so-so - kind of flat and moved too fast. BUT YOUR PHOTOS WERE JUST STUNNING. The lighting and compositions, the clouds, the land forms and plants....just so very beautiful. I really appreciated your section about the first peoples and your admonition to visit; be an active advocate and learn to live lightly with respect on this beautiful earth. Thank you so much
Thank you for your insightful comments, and I agree with your take on the virtual flyovers-I had just learned how to do that. Check out my newer 'Earth Eye' series for the next level in virtual flyovers!
Thanks so much such a great video along with all the info. I only spent a brief amount of time in the sixties in the area now I guess I'm too old to return to explore but thanks for taking me there.
I loved servicing Oregon in the early 90's I loved looking for property there in 2019 to 2020....i loved south east Washington and the Lewis and Clark Valley...we have one of the most beautiful land from Coast to Coast. I hope the gem state sends a clear message to Oregon . Now that lumber costs are up....
This is not the "Gems" video I was looking for, It was much much more wonderful! Thank You! PS. Thought some of the music was familiar. Some of my favorite musicians in here! Just Amazing!
you need to thank the people you are trashing. If they have and are still ruining this land that you are trying to save. then how can it still so beautiful. It's amazing how people beneath you kept this land so beautiful. thank you would be a good start
Eastern and Southeastern Oregon is my go to place to explore and get away from the crowds of the Cascades. It is not a place for the unprepared. Much of this area is remote and travelers must be prepared, fuel, food, and services are most often a long ways away. Unlike most of Oregon cell service is unpredictable. I carry a Garmin Inreach mini,
I love to shoot the milky way out in the S.E. Oregon desert. I travel there from Idaho. I’ve shot it on the Alvord Desert and at Borax Lake. There’s nothing like being out there and watching the Milky Way rise. I do feel that it may get a little more busy, but one good thing about Southeast Oregon, as it’s quite a long haul from population centers to get there-which is fine with me!
I saw the Milky Way when I camped up on Arapaho Pass in the Rockies in '79. I haven't seen the Milky Way since the early '90s, at my mom's home place 80 miles south of Abilene, Texas. I want to see it again before I kick the bucket. I'm in Arkansas. The closest and clearest viewing point near me is the Big Bend National Park, on the Rio Grande. I've studied my light pollution map, and it's darker there than in central Texas. It's about the same distance from me up to the tip of Michigan, which has very dark nights as well. Is there a particular time of year when the MW appears across, rather than perpendicular to, the horizon?
Those blocks (Steens et al.) are not “thrust blocks”. They are bound by normal faults, and the region is under extension. No thrusting involved. They are called “Fault blocks” and the process is “Fault block rotation”.
I enjoyed your movie of an area that I have been exploring these past 4 years. I especially liked the messaging around protecting our public land and the reference to ONDA. You may also be familiar with the work of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA) up in Missoula, a well-run and funded organization dedicating to protecting our rights to use our public lands. One thing about your geology... you are using the term "thrust" incorrectly. A thrust fault is a low angle reverse fault, which is the result of tectonic compression (not extension which is the hallmark of the basin and range tectonism and the resulting geomorphology). Thrust faults typically are large scale and commonly result in a lot of deformation (folding of beds, etc). A good example of a fold and thrust belt is the Rocky Mountains to our East. The Basin and Range is the result of tectonic extension, the geologic opposite of thrusting, so calling any of those features "thrust mountains" is really inaccurate. High angle "normal" faults result from extension (your diagram), creating the horsts (e.g., Winter Ridge, Steen Mountain etc.) and grabens (e.g. Summerlake, Alvord, etc.) and the prevailing geomorphology of the B&R. There are also low angle normal faults called "detachments" which are well studied at this point. Those faults are typically regional in scale and deep. A lot of the horst and grabens you are seeing are in the "upper plate" of larger regional features like detachments that never daylight. Sorry for being such a geology nerd, but you seem like a person that would want to use those terms correctly.
Indeed I do want to get it right, so I greatly appreciate your comment and corrections. Of course, my main "thrust" is to encourage enjoyment and protection of our public lands, for no other reason than the natural beauty they provide, because that is wondrous enough! Thank you greatly for watching and sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for your observation. Most of the photos I use in my YT videos were shot with my Nikon full format camera, in landscape orientation, and can be printed very large with high resolution.
You did a great job on this video. I share your passion for eastern Oregon but I don’t want to see wilderness areas because they damage the local economies in these remote areas. These areas are doing their best to survive with state policies that tie their hands from being able to make a living in the area. I don’t want to see them unable to raise cattle or sustain a lifestyle.
did you know that the term Owyhee got it's name from trappers trying to spell Hawaii it seems some native Hawaiians who wanted directions to find local Indian tribes ..they walked off into the wilderness and were never seen again the area was named for them on the maps
Yes. I actually displayed one of my Owyhee photos at the High Desert Museum accompanied by the naming history of the river. It is a very interesting story indeed. Thanks for your comments!
Understanding the problem so we can understand the solution. Regional mega drought in the southwest, caused by a lot of things but essentially more water is being used and is in one way or another moved out of the region then the amount of water that is re-entered into the region. Conservation has its place but it is not a solution to this problem. The demands on water will not abate without causing complete collapse so the only alternative is to introduce a new source of water. Drawing water from other regional rivers like the Columbia or the Mississippi or Missouri would only move the problem around, draining other regions. The only essentially inexhaustible source of water is the ocean. One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible. If I could explain my idea in an equation it would go something like. (seawater from the west coast moved inland + converted by combination geothermal/desalination projects = clean water and clean energy.) The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions.
I grew up in Central New Mexico. I have explored and traveled much of that land over much of my 80 years. Southeast Oregon is akin to my land in many ways. You did the Southeast of Oregon in all it's glory through your well done videos. Your voice adds much to the video. Peace and may the land and it's resources thrive for itself and humanity. We must encourage others to honor and care.
Thank you for this remarkable video. I have visited Steens Mountain and the Hart Mountain hot spring campground many times. What memories! It was good to see more of other places I was not able to go: Alvord, Pueblo, Owyhee. Excellent use of Google Earth to give overviews followed by your own excellent photographs. I have my own treasured photographs from those places and I do know how to appreciate good work of that type. Cudos and thanks! At 83 I may not be able to see it again for real.
@@WeirdOleHippy Your lovely comment truly touched me. Thank you for taking the time to make such meaningful and insightful observations. Yours is the reaction every serious photographer desires. I hope it's not your last time, but if you can't get there, I hope you'll enjoy my many other recent videos on the channel. Thank you!
I love Oregon's high desert. Thank you
At last an appropriate tribute to an area of Oregon seldom visited. On the other hand I hope the Steens, for one, will remain free from crowds & because of its relative isolation, not to mention the special kind of beauty that many people have little appreciation for, it will remain an unspoiled gem of Mother Nature that I will cherish always. Thanks so much for posting this although has Frenchglen shrunk even more since 2007? At that time there was a very small elementary school & a local population of around 40 people. I will check the present population figures.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments. I agree it's a double-edged sword: if no one goes to see these special public lands, there will be no one to stand up to protect them from possible development. They need advocates to help permanently protect them.
Good news is most people don't like to be away from the trees. I talked with a couple from Bend a few weeks ago and I mentioned the desert outback. I was pleased to hear they did not like the deserts and preferred to stay in the cascades, which these days are very crowded. I believe that were transplants from Portland area.
@@TheCactusjack1 I agree, I was raised on the OR. Coast, when I was 26 moved to southern Idaho for about 4 years drove me batty the people were great, met my husband there, but the scenery, I'm not a desert person. Don't like to be away from the trees. Soon we could, came back to the coast. When a bad storm hit 2 yrs later, did a lot of damage to the house we rented, We decided to move to Klamath county. Found an area that had the right amount of trees, & rivers. Bought a house in a small town, been here ever since, We're not transplants from Portland or any big city. I dislike cities a lot more than I dislike deserts.
Its rattle snake infested, dont come.
This was amazing. I enjoyed this tremendously. Thank you so much for all of the hard work putting together this presentation. We are truly fortunate to have these lands and such emblematic beauty. We must always treasure and fight for them.
Well said. I hope more of us can find a personal relationship with these special lands. Thanks for your kind words.
@@markdarnell569, I hope so too! You're very welcome.
great job thanks
cool 411, and yes many gems and minerals/elements/combo's
Beautiful video footage; thanks so much.
Really glad you liked it, thanks!
beautiful
Thanks!
Thanks much for putting all of this together.
You're very welcome, hope you can Go There soon!
I love this part of the state and you did a fantastic job presenting it with your video. I was riveted - thank you!
Thank you for your comments and love for this special part of our state.
Excellent video I’ll be there in mid September. Thank you, great narrative start to finish.
@@NCloyd51 Thanks! Hope you have a great experience there!
Impressive presentation. Well done.
@@nonewherelistens1906 Thank you very much!
Great video
Glad you liked it, thanks for watching!
Enjoy ed your videos. Sent them to my son in law from Roseburg Oregon. You 2 have a lot in common. He loves
hiking and photography he’s from Colorado. Now living in Oregon.
@@sherilynhayes6911 Thank you. He might also enjoy markdarnellphotography.com
This is the best video of this part of Oregon there is thanks for all the geologic explanations, as a kid we never ventured east of Bend, finally at the age of 66 i made to fort rock it was fascinating.
Thank you so much for your nice comment. I hope you will continue your exploration of this wonderful part of Oregon.
Thanks for sharing the beauty Mark.
My pleasure!!
Fantastic. Beautifully done!
Thanks,live all the way throughout that part of Or.you did a Great job on this .
Thanks! Thank you for watching.
very beautiful presentation Mark Darnell! Thank you!
Thanks for your nice comment, I do appreciate it!
Gosh....the Google Earth aerials were so-so - kind of flat and moved too fast. BUT YOUR PHOTOS WERE JUST STUNNING. The lighting and compositions, the clouds, the land forms and plants....just so very beautiful. I really appreciated your section about the first peoples and your admonition to visit; be an active advocate and learn to live lightly with respect on this beautiful earth. Thank you so much
Thank you for your insightful comments, and I agree with your take on the virtual flyovers-I had just learned how to do that. Check out my newer 'Earth Eye' series for the next level in virtual flyovers!
Thank you so much for sharing. It was fascinating. I especially loved the Owyhee River Canyon!
Thank you for your nice comments! You might also be interested in 'Owyhee Overland Trek' on my channel.
Love this country. Your pictures really do it justice. Thank you.
Thank you!
Fantastic. Many thanks for an excellent job.
Thank you so much. I am happy you enjoyed it and hope you will see it in person!
a labor of love! beautiful artistic photography. a rarity, glad i came across it, thank you!
Thank you for your lovely appreciation, hope you can enjoy these amazing places in person too!
This was wonderful and the photography was stunning.
So glad you liked it, and thanks for watching!
Ur a gem... Thanks.. i needed to see this and all i can, lol, nature junkie.. ineed another one....
Thank you to a fellow nature junkie. If you can't get out there soon, check out my RUclips channel for lots of 'fixes'.
Amazing post!! Really great work on this and some fantastic views!! Wow! Best, from Colorado!
Thank you for viewing and your kind comments, glad you liked it!
That was really cool Mark.Thanks for sharing 😀
Glad you liked it, hope you can visit there soon!
Thank you so much. Last April I explored here with a Roadside Guide; I must return with this new awareness! Beautiful compilation!
Wonderful, I hope your next trip is even more enlightening.
Thank you so much for this, giving me some great ideas where to take fam next.
Great, glad you liked the video. Just make sure you are adequately prepared for the remote conditions, and you'll love it!
Thank you for the time you took in preparing this! My daughter and I are planning a trip over this area and your video was very helpful.
That's great, I hope you have a wonderful adventure exploring our public lands!
Thanks so much such a great video along with all the info. I only spent a brief amount of time in the sixties in the area now I guess I'm too old to return to explore but thanks for taking me there.
That's music to my ears, so glad it meant something to you. Steens truly has a way of affecting us.
I loved servicing Oregon in the early 90's
I loved looking for property there in 2019 to 2020....i loved south east Washington and the Lewis and Clark Valley...we have one of the most beautiful land from Coast to Coast. I hope the gem state sends a clear message to Oregon .
Now that lumber costs are up....
A privilege to share nature with you. Carol
Thanks Carol, the pleasure is mine!
Fantastic, we have a cabin in this area and you captured it beautifully.
You are fortunate to have a cabin in such special country. Thanks so much for your comments!
This is not the "Gems" video I was looking for, It was much much more wonderful! Thank You! PS. Thought some of the music was familiar. Some of my favorite musicians in here! Just Amazing!
Thanks for watching!
you need to thank the people you are trashing. If they have and are still ruining this land that you are trying to save. then how can it still so beautiful. It's amazing how people beneath you kept this land so beautiful. thank you would be a good start
Eastern and Southeastern Oregon is my go to place to explore and get away from the crowds of the Cascades. It is not a place for the unprepared. Much of this area is remote and travelers must be prepared, fuel, food, and services are most often a long ways away. Unlike most of Oregon cell service is unpredictable. I carry a Garmin Inreach mini,
Well said, thank you!
I love to shoot the milky way out in the S.E. Oregon desert. I travel there from Idaho. I’ve shot it on the Alvord Desert and at Borax Lake. There’s nothing like being out there and watching the Milky Way rise. I do feel that it may get a little more busy, but one good thing about Southeast Oregon, as it’s quite a long haul from population centers to get there-which is fine with me!
I saw the Milky Way when I camped up on Arapaho Pass in the Rockies in '79. I haven't seen the Milky Way since the early '90s, at my mom's home place 80 miles south of Abilene, Texas. I want to see it again before I kick the bucket. I'm in Arkansas. The closest and clearest viewing point near me is the Big Bend National Park, on the Rio Grande. I've studied my light pollution map, and it's darker there than in central Texas. It's about the same distance from me up to the tip of Michigan, which has very dark nights as well.
Is there a particular time of year when the MW appears across, rather than perpendicular to, the horizon?
Those blocks (Steens et al.) are not “thrust blocks”. They are bound by normal faults, and the region is under extension. No thrusting involved. They are called “Fault blocks” and the process is “Fault block rotation”.
Thanks for your comment and correction .
I enjoyed your movie of an area that I have been exploring these past 4 years. I especially liked the messaging around protecting our public land and the reference to ONDA. You may also be familiar with the work of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA) up in Missoula, a well-run and funded organization dedicating to protecting our rights to use our public lands. One thing about your geology... you are using the term "thrust" incorrectly. A thrust fault is a low angle reverse fault, which is the result of tectonic compression (not extension which is the hallmark of the basin and range tectonism and the resulting geomorphology). Thrust faults typically are large scale and commonly result in a lot of deformation (folding of beds, etc). A good example of a fold and thrust belt is the Rocky Mountains to our East. The Basin and Range is the result of tectonic extension, the geologic opposite of thrusting, so calling any of those features "thrust mountains" is really inaccurate. High angle "normal" faults result from extension (your diagram), creating the horsts (e.g., Winter Ridge, Steen Mountain etc.) and grabens (e.g. Summerlake, Alvord, etc.) and the prevailing geomorphology of the B&R. There are also low angle normal faults called "detachments" which are well studied at this point. Those faults are typically regional in scale and deep. A lot of the horst and grabens you are seeing are in the "upper plate" of larger regional features like detachments that never daylight. Sorry for being such a geology nerd, but you seem like a person that would want to use those terms correctly.
Indeed I do want to get it right, so I greatly appreciate your comment and corrections. Of course, my main "thrust" is to encourage enjoyment and protection of our public lands, for no other reason than the natural beauty they provide, because that is wondrous enough! Thank you greatly for watching and sharing your knowledge.
You might want to hold your iphone camera horizontally for social media....
Thanks for your observation. Most of the photos I use in my YT videos were shot with my Nikon full format camera, in landscape orientation, and can be printed very large with high resolution.
You did a great job on this video. I share your passion for eastern Oregon but I don’t want to see wilderness areas because they damage the local economies in these remote areas. These areas are doing their best to survive with state policies that tie their hands from being able to make a living in the area. I don’t want to see them unable to raise cattle or sustain a lifestyle.
did you know that the term Owyhee got it's name from trappers trying to spell Hawaii it seems some native Hawaiians who wanted directions to find local Indian tribes ..they walked off into the wilderness and were never seen again the area was named for them on the maps
Yes. I actually displayed one of my Owyhee photos at the High Desert Museum accompanied by the naming history of the river. It is a very interesting story indeed. Thanks for your comments!
Northern Arizona is very much like SE Oregon.
More history of the land and a little less google earth and music!
Understanding the problem so we can understand the solution. Regional mega drought in the southwest, caused by a lot of things but essentially more water is being used and is in one way or another moved out of the region then the amount of water that is re-entered into the region. Conservation has its place but it is not a solution to this problem. The demands on water will not abate without causing complete collapse so the only alternative is to introduce a new source of water. Drawing water from other regional rivers like the Columbia or the Mississippi or Missouri would only move the problem around, draining other regions. The only essentially inexhaustible source of water is the ocean.
One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible.
If I could explain my idea in an equation it would go something like. (seawater from the west coast moved inland + converted by combination geothermal/desalination projects = clean water and clean energy.) The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions.
I grew up in Central New Mexico. I have explored and traveled much of that land over much of my 80 years. Southeast Oregon is akin to my land in many ways. You did the Southeast of Oregon in all it's glory through your well done videos. Your voice adds much to the video. Peace and may the land and it's resources thrive for itself and humanity. We must encourage
others to honor and care.
Thankfully those monsters in Portland haven't figured out how to destroy this too.
They have...
Seriously? I live out in this remote area and I can promise you it isn't 'Portland Monsters' trashing the landscape. Quite the contrary...
I hear they're going to dye the lake a rainbow color
There is enough locked up public land. Tree huggers make me wanna puke