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	Alvord Desert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Alvord Desert is a desert in the southeastern part of the American state of Oregon.
		The Alvord is a 12 by 7 mile playa, a dry lake bed, and averages 7 inches of rain a year.
		Alvord Hotsprings is on the west edge of the playa,
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alvord_Desert (125 words)

	Alvord Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Desert playas are the flattest and most lifeless pieces of landscape on earth.
		The Alvord Desert, which lies at the base of Steens Mountain, is no exception.
		On the western edge of the playa, visible for the road which runs between it and Steens, is the Alvord Hot Springs and its galvanized tin bathhouse.
	donb.furfly.net /malheur/places/alvorddesert.html (216 words)

	steenssite geology
		The Alvord Desert is dry and gets an average of 7 inches of rain in a year.
		At the edge of the desert next to the mountains there are deposits of sediment from Steens Mountain.
		Alvord Hotsprings is located at the west edge of the Alvord Playa, close to where one of the major faults that forms the steep east scarp of Steens is located.
	web.pdx.edu /~ruzickaa/UNST421/spring01class/geology/AlvordDesert.html (349 words)

	Mountain Biking Southeast Oregon
		Alvord Desert, including the monumental east face of Steens Mountain, the vast and empty Alvord Desert, numerous several hot springs, and the impressive Pueblo, Trout Creek and Oregon Canyon mountain ranges.
		This author once turned his back on blue skies in the Alvord Desert to set up camp, and barely had enough time to finish as a fast-moving and violent storm bore down on him.
		Contrary to myth, the desert is not crawling with snakes - they're not as common as all that.
	www.wriconsult.com /desert (1948 words)

	About the High Desert Committee (HDC) - Oregon Chapter Sierra Club -
		Since 1989 the High Desert Committee has worked with BLM staff and local landowners in an effort to build bridges and find creative solutions to the challenges of conservation for our remaining public wildlands.
		Desert flora and fauna have adapted to the often harsh climate of this open country and depend on the natural state of the environment to live and flourish.
		This high desert country is home for golden eagles, kit fox, redband trout, horned lizards, bighorn sheep, sage grouse, fl tailed jackrabbit, horned lark and many other wildlife species.
	www.oregon.sierraclub.org /conserv/hidsrt/about_hdc.asp (1053 words)

	Search:ALVORD DESERT - WebCrawler
		Desert lies in the SW corner of Oregon.
		Desert on Saturday and were treated to a thunder and dust storm.
		Desert is dry and gets an average of 7 inches of rain in a year.
	www.webcrawler.com /info.wbcrwl/search/web/ALVORD+DESERT (315 words)

	Ecological Methods and Research in Reptile Ecology-Grasshopper Distribution and Abundance in the Alvord Basin
		Investigaing where grasshoppers choose to reside in the Alvord desert during the day required at least two separate procedures for measuring their distribution and abundance.
		The Desert Shrub Inhabitant Isolator (DSII) was created to isolate particular plants from their surrounding environments while all of the grasshoppers residing on them were removed by the researcher.
		Surface sand temperatures in the Alvord reach highs near 60 °C during midday, but sunlit sand surface may be a good location for grasshoppers to thermoregulate, court, and mate early and late in the day.
	www.biol.wwu.edu /anderson/projects/01grasshopper (1409 words)

	Website: That ain't a playa. This is a playa.
		During the spring, the desert floods with melting snow pack and becomes a muddy lake bed.
		The Alvord Desert is one the few places in the United States were you can be as free and weird and stupid as your imagination can bear.
		Harney County and the Alvord are often referred to as Oregon's Outback.
	www.laurabush.info /website/archives/28.html (3229 words)

	The Great Basin
		The Alvord Desert - Located in Southeastern Oregon, the Alvord is the most perfectly flat and sharply defined playa in the Great Basin.
		In springtime (this photo is taken in late May) the desert is surrounded by lush grasslands and blooming fields of wildflowers.
		The Alvord Desert is accessible via a very well-maintained dirt road.
	www.depauw.edu /acad/geosciences/tcope/greatbasin2.htm (510 words)

	List of North American deserts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of North American deserts.
		There are four major desert biomes in North America, all located in Mexico or the southwestern United States.
		Among their notable features are the Madrean sky islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_North_American_deserts (82 words)

	TripCheck - Oregon Department of Transportation
		This 143-mile tour skirts along the eastern escarpment of Steens Mountain and the vast expanses of the Alvord Desert, providing a scenic study in dramatic contrasts.
		While Steens Mountain looms to the west, the shimmering salt flats of the Alvord Desert unfold to the east.
		The Alvord Desert playa which can be either wet or dry depending on the time of year, is one of the largest playas in Oregon, six miles wide and 11 miles long.
	www.tripcheck.com /Pages/SBeastSteens.asp (391 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The east face of the Steens (west side of the valley) is about 1 mile high at its highest point, and represents a fault scarp that formed during the past 6 million years or so, with the mountain itself the result of uplifting.
		The Alvord Desert we camped upon is the associated block that was dropped along the fault line.
		In the foreground you see the eastern fault scarp forming the east side of the desert; the desert floor has essentially dropped down, relative to the edges (east face of the Steens is in the distant background)
	home.att.net /~slurban2/Alvord-Desert-report.html (2208 words)

	Desert Solitary \| Outside Online
		Deserts are among the most fragile landscapes on earth.
		This is not a desert for dilettantes: The roads are rough (you will be ticketed if you don't have a four-wheel-drive), there is no water, and there are no hiking trails.
		While not meeting all technical definitions of a desert, the heart of El Malpais is nonetheless as forbidding a place as you'll find, suitably arid, plenty hot in summer (though at 6,000 feet it's no Death Valley), and very, very empty.
	outside.away.com /magazine/0996/9609dest.html (2429 words)

	Alvord Hot Springs
		Comments: Right next to the scenic Alvord Desert, access to the springs is open to the public.
		The springs are at an elevation of 4080 feet in the Oregon high desert region.
		At there source the spring water is a scalding 174 degree Fahrenheit, but it is channeled down into the man-made pool which allows the waters to cool considerably.
	oregonhotsprings.immunenet.com /alvord.htm (175 words)

	OSU Press at Oregon State University
		Wildflower displays of Steens Mountain, the desert flora of the Alvord and Harney basins, and the variety of landscapes in the region attract interest from both the botanist and nonbotanist alike.
		The Alvord Creek fossils tell us that annual precipitation at this time was about double the current rate and that mean annual temperatures were higher and with less drastic extremes.
		Throughout these periods, continued erosion of the Steens massif has produced alluvial fans in the Alvord basin which have become confluent to form a gradual slope, called a "bajada," between the mountain and the floor of the Alvord Desert.
	oregonstate.edu /dept/press/e-f/FloraSteensIntro.html (9227 words)

	Andy Kerr - Changes in the Desert Wind
		Those who know the desert know it to be a diverse and beautiful land.
		Many of the big oil companies are also looking for geothermal energy at such sensitive areas as the juncture of Alvord Desert and Steens Mountain, and around the Warner and Summer Lake valleys.
		There are those who are attempting to turn the magnificent Alvord Desert into a speed test track for vehicles to break the land speed record and possibly even the sound barrier.
	www.andykerr.net /OregonDesert/Seriatim1.html (849 words)

	The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine
		Like the rest of this vast landscape that fills the bottom southeast corner of Oregon, the Alvord Desert is a blank spot on the map that's not really blank at all.
		Harney County, home to the Alvord, is the biggest county in Oregon —; larger than six Eastern states — and also one of the driest, with just 10 inches of precipitation a year on average.
		Those who call the desert home earn their place by adapting as cleverly as the ubiquitous sagebrush: It makes extra leaves in the wet of spring, sheds them in the heat of the summer, and waters itself at night with a tap root sunk deep into the earth, where the water abides.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /pacificnw/2003/1005/cover.html (2898 words)

	Steens Mountain in Oregon, U.S.A.
		Its thousands of square miles of dessicated playas and scrub land are inhabited by exotic plants and animals including desert horned toads, collared lizards, antelope ground squirrels, and Mormon tea bushes.
		Alvord Desert and Steens Summit in the early spring
		The climate of the High Desert in Southereastern Oregon is strikingly different than that of Western Oregon; one would hardly guess that both are in the same State, so fundamentally different they are!
	www.oregonphotos.com /pagethree-C.html (838 words)

	Hiking the Pueblos -- Experience the Desert Offerings of Southeast Oregon's Remote Range (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Travel is trickier in the southern third of the Pueblos, where the Van Horn and Denio basins are separated by a lava ridge.
		Mule deer sightings were many, especially near springs at Machine Meadows and, later, at 10 Cent Meadows and creeks in the Van Horn Basin, lined with cottonwoods, aspens and groves of nearly impenetrable willows.
		A canyon west of 10 Cent Meadows was lush with larkspur, lupine, Indian paintbrush, penstemons, cinquefoil, shooting stars, columbines, monkey flowers, asters and buttercups, flowers that attracted numerous song birds and the curious caliope hummingbirds.
	www.highonadventure.com /Hoa98oct/Pueblos/pueblo.htm (1003 words)

	ENVIRONMENT
		It is a 12 by 7 mile dry lake bed created over 24 million years ago when the Steens Mountain lifted.
		The Alvord Desert is dry and gets an average of 7 inches of rain in a year although during the wetter years small lakes will form in the playa.
		These wedge-shaped aprons called alluvial fans which are formed as streams carry sediments from the mountain and drop them at the margin of the Alvord Desert.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~malheur/envir.html (137 words)

	3D SEISMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE BORAX LAKE HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM IN THE ALVORD DESERT, SOUTHEASTERN OREGON
		As part of an interdisciplinary project aiming to study the link between the physical characteristics of hydrothermal systems and biota that occupy those systems, we are conducting a detailed geophysical characterization of an active hydrothermal system.
		As a result of Basin and Range extension, the Alvord Basin is a north-south trending graben bounded by the Steens Mountains to the west and the Trout Creek Mountains to the east.
		We are using several geophysical techniques to generate both basin-wide and high-resolution local characterizations of the Alvord Basin and the BLHS.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2004RM/finalprogram/abstract_72612.htm (461 words)

	LATE HOLOCENE DEFORMATION RATES WITHIN THE ALVORD BASIN, NORTWESTERN GREAT BASIN, SOUTHWESTERN OREGON
		The Alvord Desert lies in a north-northeast trending fault bound basin bordered to the west by Steens Mountain, which forms the footwall to an east-facing normal fault system that accommodates at least 3.0 km of stratigraphic throw.
		The physiographic expression of individual terraces varies with age and topographic morphology of the basin margin and exhibit elevations that vary around the perimeter of the basin.
		At the time-scale of 12,000 years, horizontal displacement rates in the Alvord basin and western Great Basin are essentially steady-state but differ in seismogenic strain release.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2004RM/finalprogram/abstract_72780.htm (549 words)

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		Not far from Fields, in the middle of the Alvord Basin, lies Borax Lake and a series of almost 200 north-northeast-trending hot springs.
		The Alvord Desert is an immense 12-mile long by 7-mile wide dry lake bed in the middle of the Alvord Basin ideal for windsailing or catching a ride in a glider.
		The canyon exposes some of the oldest rocks in the area (the Alvord Creek Formation), one of the thickest sections of the Pike Creek Formation, and the overlying Steens Mountain Volcanics and Steens Basalt.
	www.uidaho.edu /biogeochemistry/VirtualTour.html (643 words)

	Steens Mountain - Alvord Desert Tour - Wanderlust Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Perhaps the reason is that Steens, perched at 9,700 ft. above sea level and a vertical mile above the floor of the Alvord Desert, is furthest away from any U.S. Interstate highway in the lower 48 states.
		A desert trail will give way to riparian beauty and human interaction with the rugged east Steens slope as we hike into Pike Canyon.
		The Alvord is a playa, dried by the scorching sun, on the edge of which flows the perennial hot waters of Alvord Spring.
	www.wanderlusttours.com /specials/steens.html (785 words)

	Natural History of the Pacific Northwest
		Despite the paving of roads, irrigation agriculture in the valleys and decades of overgrazing and the long runs of drift fence on the deserts, most of that country is intact in a natural way, the distances and flowering enclaves.
		Destinations change yearly and include the high deserts, the mountains and plateaus of central Oregon, coastal forests and shores, and the Cascades and Klamath Mountains.
		The furred skin was torn with ragged edges, evidence that it had been pulled away from the dog-body by an angry hand and a dull knife.
	www.sou.edu /Biology/Courses/Bi523/Bi523.htm (817 words)

	High Desert Issues: FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
		The key to safeguarding Steens-Alvord from inappropriate development and overuse / misuse of natural resources lies in the management plan that will be in part crafted (in an advisory capacity) by the Steens Mountain Advisory Council (SMAC).
		Any protective designation must address the many threats facing this magnificent landscape, and ensure that the tremendous natural values of the Owyhee Canyonlands receive the permanent protection they need and deserve.
		A: Thank your congressional representative for their support last session in protecting Steens-Alvord and encourage them to provide permanent protection for additional wilderness on Steens as well as other areas such as the Owyhee Canyonlands.
	www.oregon.sierraclub.org /conserv/hidsrt/faq.asp (633 words)

	Andy Kerr book - Oregon Desert Guide: 70 Hikes
		In 70 hikes through snow-capped mountain ranges, deep desert canyons, sagebrush-covered flats, dry lake playas, moonlike lava fields, and juniper-covered hillsides, he will seduce you, too with the spare and mysterious beauty of the desert.
		The Oregon Desert Guide uncovers short and long hikes in some of the most spectacular and little-known country in the lower 48.
		Most other areas covered in the guide, however, have not received such protection, and the author does a public service by providing a conservation context for each hike; Northwesterners, after all, are all too aware of what happens to favorite hiking destinations that don't receive some form of legal protection.
	www.andykerr.net /Books/ODG.html (905 words)

	2001 Photos - Adventures with Kerry - Alvord Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Over Memorial Day in 2001 we staggered our weekend and went to Steens Mountain from the west side for a day hike then drove around the south end to the Alvord desert, a dry desert Playa where cars and sail-carts can cruise around wherever they please and there is a well-known but simple hot spring.
		At the hotsprings we got to talk to a true old-timer who had lived there his entire life.
		Between that and an old country store in the eastern Oregon desert on the way back Kerry had a chance to see a whole different part of America than what people in other countries are exposed to in the media.
	www.snowman-jim.org /climbing/photos/2001/2001-kerry/2001-05-26-alvord (150 words)

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