Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The Zumwalt Country






Obscure by Oregon geography standards, the Zumwalt Prairie in the extreme northeast corner of Oregon represents a wonderfully diverse ecological niche. As set out in the book, "The Prairie Keepers" by Marcy Houle, this area demonstrates how ranchers and grazing and wildlife "not only can coexist, but in some instances must coexist." A single gravel road accesses these thousands and thousands of acres, where nature and silence have scarcely been disturbed from time immemorial. Whether one photographs, reads, or meditates, the silence makes its own music.

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  1. Thanks again for the beautiful photos and short commentary of Eastern Oregon. We continue to miss the rugged yet serene landscape of that area and still look forward to retiring there.

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