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	Harney Basin - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		One of the least populated areas of the contiguous United States, it is located largely in northern Harney County, bounded on the north and east by the Columbia Plateau and the south and west by a volcanic plain.
		The center of the basin is a flat lowlands containing Malheur and Harney lakes, which receive the streams within the basin from the surrounding mountains, including the Silvies River from the north and the Donner und Blitzen River from the south.
		In the 19th century the basin was inhabited by the Northern Paiute tribe.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Harney_Basin (734 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Facilitated on the national level by the Carey Act of 1894, arid land in Harney County was donated to the state for irrigation and settlement, but all water development efforts failed, and eventually all land claims filed under the reclamation legislation were abandoned or nullified.
		The remaining population of Harney County is dispersed throughout the countryside, mostly dwelling on large ranches.
		Harney County was carved out of the southern two-thirds of Grant County on February 25, 1889.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Harney_County,_Oregon (866 words)

	Harney County, Oregon - Oregon.com
		Harney County's population is primarily concentrated in a small urbanized sector of Burns-Hines with the remainder mostly in the Harney Basin.
		The county's population was recorded as 2,559 during the 1890 census and rose steadily until the decade of 1930-40, and then resumed an upward curve until the 1980s.
		Facilitated on the national level by the Carey Act of 1894, arid land in Harney County was donated to the state for irrigation and settlement, but all water development efforts failed.
	www.oregon.com /counties/harney.cfm (714 words)

	OHJV - Basin and Range
		Isolated from each other for tens of thousands of years, individual basins have developed high levels of endemism among fish species; 17 species of sensitive, threatened and endangered fish are found in the region's shallow lakes and springs.
		Harney basin wetlands draw peak numbers of up to 2.5 million ducks during the spring migration.
		Flood-irrigation of hay meadows on private lands in the Harney Basin provides important habitat for migrating and breeding birds, but many of the region's other historic wetlands have been converted to agriculture or degraded through water diversions and grazing.
	www.ohjv.org /oregons_wetlands/basinandrange.html (270 words)

	Harney County History
		The Harney County Courthouse in Burns was constructed in 1942 to replace the courthouse built in 1890.
		Harney County was created from the southern two-thirds of Grant County on February 25, 1889.
		It is located in the high desert country in the southeast portion of the state and is the largest county in Oregon comprising 10,228 square miles.
	arcweb.sos.state.or.us /county/cpharneyhome.html (664 words)

	Harney County Watershed Council
		The average elevation for the basin is 4200' with the highest point being the top of Steens Mountain, which is 9780'.
		While most of the basin is arid high desert uplands, approximately 600,000 acres of the northern portion is forested.
		Most of the basin is utilized for agriculture, with 73% of the lands being administered by Federal and State Agencies.
	www.angelfire.com /or3/hcwatershedco/index.html (389 words)

	Harney Basin Information
		The central basin receives an average of 6 in (150 mm) of rain per year, with the surrounding mountains receiving an average of 15 in (380 mm) per year.
		Evidence suggests that several species--in particular the chiselmouth, coarse-scale suckers, and northern squawfish--existed in the basin that are currently found only in the Columbia River basin; also suggesting that one time the basin was connected to the Columbia.
		The basin lay far off the route of the Oregon Trail, but in 1843 experienced mountain man Stephen Meek led an illfated party across the basin via Stinkingwater Pass, seeking a shortcut to The Dalles along what has become known as the Meek Cutoff.
	www.bookrags.com /Harney_Basin (725 words)

	Harney County Chamber of Commerce - Burns, Oregon - Climate Data
		Harney County lies in the high desert at the northern edge of the Great Basin.
		Harney County covers 10,200 square miles, the largest county in Oregon and larger than several states.
		The towns of Burns and Hines are on the northern edge of the Harney Basin, at the base of the Blue Mountains.
	www.harneycounty.com /BlitzrWall/Climate.htm (181 words)

	Malheur Lake. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Harney Basin in NW part of Great Basin.
		Connected by channel to Harney L. in SW.
		Wildlife Refuge surround Malheur and Harney lakes and Donner und Blitzen R. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America.
	www.bartleby.com /69/66/M01566.html (114 words)

	Columbia River Basin
		The Columbia River Basin is a complex tapestry of mountains, high plateaus, desert basins, river valleys, rolling uplands, and deep gorges woven together by the Columbia River and its tributaries.
		Within the basin, there are six species and subspecies of fish whose habitats span from the waters of the Pacific Ocean to the mountains of the Continental Divide bordering Idaho and Montana.
		In the basin's forests, populations of cavity dwellers, including several species of owl, woodpeckers, and the northern flying squirrel, are declining due to fewer dead or dying trees.
	www.blm.gov /education/00_resources/articles/Columbia_river_basin/article.html (3344 words)

	steenssite tourist info
		Harney Basin was then considerably less of a basin than it is today.
		In fact Harney Basin was filled with a minimum of at least 240 feet of sediments above its present day topography.
		Subsequent to that time, erosion continued to lower the topography of Harney as alluvial material was transported easterly via the ancestral Malheur River.
	web.pdx.edu /~ruzickaa/UNST421/spring01class/tourist_info/wright.html (298 words)

	John Day Fossil Beds NM: Historic Resources Study (Chapter 4)
		As Drake's force moved on toward the Harney Basin, patrols of both regular soldiers and Indian scouts from Warm Springs made salients toward the South Fork of the John Day and into the upper river valley to try to locate members of Northern Paiute Chief Paulina's band.
		In the Harney Basin the soldiers could find no Indians, but on July 7 learned of their actions to the north where they stole thirty or forty head of horses at Canyon City, killed one or two residents, and ran off stock on Bridge Creek.
		A vast tract sprawling across the meadows of the Harney Basin and encompassing Malheur Lake, Oregon's largest lake, the reservation was designated as a permanent homeland for the Northern Paiute.
	www.nps.gov /joda/hrs/hrs4c.htm (1785 words)

	USGS: Geological Survey Circular 838 (Roadlog for High Lava Plains, Brothers fault zone to Harney Basin, Oregon)
		Central Harney Basin lies within a much larger structurally depressed area that coincides approximately with the physiographic basin outlined on fig.
		The structural basin evolved in part concurrently with the eruption of late Miocene ash-flow tufts, which are traversed by the next stage of the field trip.
		Harney Lake, to west, is the current sump of the Harney Basin drainage system.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/geology/publications/cip/838/roadlog5.htm (2895 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding for a Petition To List the Great ...
		Morphologically, all Great Basin redband trout share an increase in the number of gill rakers that is not as prevalent in redband from basins outside the Great Basin.
		Because redband trout populations in all basins have rebounded, the effects of any potential threats to the Great Basin redband trout and the likelihood of extinction of the species is substantially reduced.
		However, the data on Great Basin redband trout abundance and distribution reflect an aquatic habitat that provides enough of the ecological parameters necessary for spawning, rearing, and survival to have supported an increasing population since the end of the drought.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/2000/March/Day-20/e6864.htm (3981 words)

	Harney County Economic Development
		The Harney County Economic Development Department is here to serve this community in the growth and expansion of existing businesses within the County, and to encourage the emergence of new and relocating businesses within our community.
		Located in a sweeping valley in the northern portion of the Great Basin, Harney County is the largest county in Oregon.
		This web site is designed to assist you in learning about Harney County and show you how we are rapidly becoming the most attractive place to locate your business in the Pacific Northwest.
	www.harneycounty.org (243 words)

	Oregon Magazine
		Malheur Refuge lies at the heart of the Harney Basin in north-central Harney County.
		The Harney Basin marks the northwest corner of the Great Basin desert, which occupies most of Nevada and portions of the surrounding states.
		The absence of an outlet for their water defines all geologic basins, and Harney Lake is the “sink” for the Malheur region.
	oregonmag.com /Shunk.htm (890 words)

	Archaeological Report - Harney County Oregon, Range Seeding Projects
		Pettigrew's study Archaeological Investigations at Stinkingwater Pass, Harney County, Oregon is of particular relevance to this report because the entire investigation falls within our study area, and some of the seeding areas that were surveyed are in close proximity to Pettigrew's project area.
		Based on his analysis of the data, Pettigrew concludes that the Stinkingwater Pass area was utilized by two distinct groups of people, one group from the Harney Basin and the other from the Malheur River valley.
		Pettigrew goes on to hypothesize that changing climatic conditions were responsible for the Harney Basin people's shift to greater utilization of the Stinkingwater Pass area about 4,000 years ago.
	www.ajmorris.com /a05/rsp03.htm (4018 words)

	Harney ancestry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ancestors of Thomas Harney and Margaret Dowling - Surnames include Legg Beggs Harney Schrap Woodcock Penno Richards Dowling Major Mary Bernadette Beggs born in the South island of New Zealand of Irish ancestry
		Ann Harney DESIGNS - Ancestry com http www ancestry com is a leading genealogical website fee based RIHSL http www rihs org libraryhome htm offers this at the library
		The History of Harney - History of Harney Part 1 J W Beck Originally published in the Carroll been owned by John Topper and Eliza Reck the ancestry of whom we are
	www.museumstuff.com /family-history/names/Harney.php (197 words)

	Grant Co., Oregon - In the Beginning Pg. 2
		With a huge sawmill in Harney County, its own railroad that ran from the mill to the forests, and its own company town, Seneca, Hines had in the early days a near monopoly on the virgin pine south of the Strawberry Mountains.
		By the 1880's the population in the Harney Basin was beginning to grow, and the people there felt very removed from the county seat in Canyon City.
		Harney County and its Rangeland by George Francis Brimlow.
	gesswhoto.com /beginning2.html (1595 words)

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		The Great Basin is a large, arid region of the western United States, commonly defined as the contiguous watershed region, roughly between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, that has no natural outlet to the sea.
		The Great Basin is not a single basin, but rather a series of contiguous watersheds, bounded on the west by watersheds of the Sacramento-San Joaquin and Klamath rivers, on the north by the watershed of the Columbia-Snake, and on the south and east by the watershed of the Colorado-Green.
		The Great Basin is traversed by major long-distance railroads and expressways, such as the parts of Interstate-80 between Reno and Salt Lake City, Interstate-15 between California and Idaho, and Interstate-70 between its junction with Interstate-15 in Utah and westmost Colorado.
	digital-desert.com /great-basin-desert (1412 words)

	Grant Co., Oregon - In the Beginning Pg. 2
		With a huge sawmill in Harney County, its own railroad that ran from the mill to the forests, and its own company town, Seneca, Hines had in the early days a near monopoly on the virgin pine south of the Strawberry Mountains.
		By the 1880's the population in the Harney Basin was beginning to grow, and the people there felt very removed from the county seat in Canyon City.
		Harney County and its Rangeland by George Francis Brimlow.
	www.gesswhoto.com /beginning2.html (1595 words)

	Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
		The Harney Basin where Malheur Refuge is located has been occupied by Native Americans for over 11,000 years.
		Sites containing the history of these early inhabitants are found throughout the basin in a variety of landscapes and in the surrounding mountains.
		This was one of the first contacts between the Northern Paiute of the Harney Basin and Europeans.
	www.fws.gov /malheur/history.htm (1164 words)

	Floodgap Roadgap -- US 395, Part 18: Oregon State Line to US 20 (Lake and Harney Counties)
		Harney county will be discussed more in the next Part.
		This is nearly the lip of the Harney Basin rim, formed approximately 32,000 years ago when lava floes separated the watershed of the basin from the Malheur River (Part 20) which once fed it.
		Although there is ample evidence that it was a much wetter and greener environment in antiquity, once the so-called Malheur Gap closed, the basin became isolated and arid and its previously lusher landscape withered under the abruptly drier conditions.
	www.floodgap.com /roadgap/395/u18 (2372 words)

	Harney Basin . 1935
		Evidence suggests that several species in particular the chiselmouth, coarse-scale suckers, and northern squawfish existed in the basin that are currently found only in the Columbia River basin, suggested that one time the basin was connected to the Columbia.
		The center of the basin is a flat lowlands containing Malheur and Harney lakes, which receive the streams
		One of the least populated areas of the contiguous United States, it is located largely in northern Harney County, Oregon Harney County, bounded on the north and east by the Columbia Plateau and the south and west by a volcano volcanic plain.
	www.uk.kunsimuna.net /Harney_Basin_UK_206022_ck (578 words)

	News-Register.com
		Officials say readings show the Mount Hood area and the Deschutes River Basin are the wettest when compared to their averages for this time of year: Mount Hood was at 111 percent of average and the Deschutes Basin was at 110 percent.
		Elsewhere, in Eastern Oregon, the Harney Basin is at 69 percent of average, the Owyhee River region is at 71 percent, Lakeview area is at 84 percent, and the Wallowas region is at 94 percent.
		And in Southern Oregon, the Medford area is 93 percent of average, and the Klamath Basin is at 101 percent.
	www.newsregister.com /news/story.cfm?story_no=216915 (227 words)

	St. Johns River Information Guide - Florida Lakes and Rivers
		The first quarter of the St. Johns, up to Lake Harney, is dependent upon rainfall for its flow, with a small bit of assistance from a few springs and some natural water table seepage.
		The stretch of river between Lakes Harney and Monroe is a principle spawning ground for the tremendous numbers of big American Shad, which annually make the long journey from the Atlantic.
		The salt-contaminated waters from the Lake Harney basin become somewhat diluted by the time they reach this point and, as we will cover in a moment, the waters in Lake George are highly saline.
	www.jimporter.org /lakes/stjohns (2633 words)

	Corbin Harney
		When Corbin Harney was a boy, he would run away from the missionary school where he was forced to sit and listen to a language he did not speak or understand.
		Harney is a Western Shoshone elder and leader and an internationally known anti-nuclear weapons and indigenous rights activist whose traditional lands has been used as a nuclear weapons testing grounds for the last 50 years.
		Harney leads ceremonies and healing rituals on tribal land in Nevada and travels the Earth to talk to whomever will listen, telling them to pray for the Earth.
	www.shundahai.org /Corbin_Harney.htm (2428 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 flora of the region is well-represented on Steens Mountain as a consequence of the extensive topographic variation spanning its nearly 1,800 m (6,000 ft) of relief.
		This vegetation zone is also in the Harney Basin and, at a slightly higher elevation, the Catlow Valley.
	oregonstate.edu /dept/press/e-f/FloraSteensIntro.html (9227 words)

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