Read Our "2009 Victories" Page!
Think 2009 wasn't the best of years? We think it could have been improved on some, too. But we did make some gratifying progress toward saving our forests, environment, and quality of life. Read our "2009 Victories" page for a summary of these accomplishments.
Some were achieved through confrontation, and some through convincing and cooperation. Our wish for the New Year is more of the latter, and less of the former. May 2010 be a good year for the Earth and all the creatures that inhabit it!
Welcome to the Juniper Group of the Oregon Sierra Club!
Dedicated to preserving Central and Eastern Oregon's environment, natural resources, and quality of life, the Juniper Group is composed of Baker, Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, Malheur, Morrow, Umatilla, and Wallowa counties.
Juniper-R-US by David Eddleston; Steens Mountain, Moonrise Summer Lake, Harney County, Deer-Hatfield, and Summer Lake Geese by Marilyn Miller; Green Lake and Sister, and Metolius River by Asante Riverwind; Fall Creek Hike, Broken Top, Camp Lake, Broken Top North, Sunset, Steens-Alvord, Antelope Reservoir Sunrise, and Badlands Rock by Larry Pennington
Forest, Fire, Resilience, and Restoration - In Pictures and Word!
Desert Rainbow
by Asante RiverwindFeast your eyeballs on this beauteous pictorial and word summary of Central Oregon's forests,
streams, and deserts in the year 2008 by the Oregon Sierra Club's Eastern Forest Organizer, Asante Riverwind.
Asante
has created this 57 slide montage of our local environment, from the soaring Ponderosa Pines to the tiny microbes
of the soil to show us our gratifying successes, some failures, many challenges,
and much hope for a better Central Oregon in the coming year. Give it a click and
enjoy: Forest, Fire, Resilience, and Restoration
is time well spent. (Note: the presentation is in
Adobe Acrobat (pdf) and is a 4 MB file, so slower connections may take
some time to download.) If you have a really high speed Internet
connection, click here
Forest, Fire, Resilience, and Restoration Hi-Def for the 39 MB high definition version.