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	Steens Mountain Wilderness
		The Steens is one single mountain, not a mountain range, and although it originates from the fiery volcanic history of Oregon, it is not shaped like the classic shield volcanoes of the Cascade Range.
		The Steens is an upheaved piece of the Earth's crust, characterized by its steep, razor-edge eastern rim, which slopes gently to the west, dropping from 9733 feet to 4000 feet over 20 miles.
		The Steens Mountain Recreation Lands are administered by the Burns District of the Bureau of Land Management.
	members.tripod.com /~SteensMountain/steens.html (223 words)

	Wassinger, Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act
		The 12-member Steens Mountain Advisory Council was appointed by the Secretary of the Interior on August 14, 2001 -- pursuant to the Steens Act.
		Under the provisions of Subtitle D of the Steens Act, the Advisory Council is charged with advising the Secretary in the management of the Steens Area and in promoting cooperative management.
		The Steens Act requires that grazing within wilderness shall be administered in accordance with the Wilderness Act and the guidelines established by Congress in 1990.
	www.doi.gov /ocl/2002/steens.htm (1420 words)

	Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area
		Because Steens is on the northern limit of the Great Basin, it has creatures not usually found in Oregon such as collared and leopard lizards, Skinner's sulphur butterfly, and the kit fox.
		The Act designates a 425,500-acre Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area, to be managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to conserve, protect, and manage the long-term ecological integrity of the Steens Mountain for future and present generations.
		Although a part of Steens Mountain is now managed for ecological values, areas in the region are still threatened by off-road vehicle disturbance and livestock grazing on lands unsuitable for grazing.
	www.discovernlcs.org /TheNLCS/ConservationAreas/SteensMountain.cfm (598 words)

	Steens Mountain National Byway - Oregon Scenic Drives \| GORP
		The South Steens wild horses descended from horses that escaped from early explorers, settlers, miners, Indians, and ranchers.
		Steens Mountain is one of the few places in North America where conifers, like firs and pines, are not the timber at timberline.
		During the Roaring Twenties, Steens Mountain was a popular summer retreat for 2-footed and 4-footed tourists.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/activity/byway/or_steen.htm (1798 words)

	Steens Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Steens Mountain is a large fault-block mountain in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Oregon.
		It is sometimes confused with a mountain range, but is properly a single mountain.
		It was called the "Snowy Mountains" during early fur trade, but in 1860 was renamed for U.S. Army Major Steens, who fought Paiute on the mountain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steens_Mountain (196 words)

	BLM News: Legislative - Statement of Molly McUsic - Counselor to the Secretary, DOI - H.R. 4828, Steens Mountain ...
		Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon is an area of exceptional beauty.
		The fault-block mountains and broad valleys that make up the Steens Mountain area were formed 18 million years ago when the earth's crust began stretching east to west.
		The Steens Mountain fault block stretches 60 miles, rises to an elevation of 9,700 feet and dramatically drops 5,500 feet in three miles to the historic lakebed of the Alvord Desert.
	www.blm.gov /nhp/news/legislative/pages/2000/te000718.htm (1814 words)

	TripCheck - Oregon Department of Transportation
		Steens Mountain is an example of a fault-block mountain, formed when massive internal pressure forced the east edge upward along a fault line.
		Steens Mountain acts as a great moisture collector, creating vastly different ecosystems from the valley floor to the mountain top.
		Cattlemen, as well as Irish and Basque sheepherders, were once drawn to the upper mountain in the summer to graze their stock on the lush meadows that thrive there.
	www.tripcheck.com /Pages/SBsteensLoop.asp (355 words)

	Oregon's Important Bird Areas - Steens Mountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is a large fault-block mountain in southeast Oregon, running over 40 miles roughly north-northeast to south-southwest, the long slope to the west and the steep slopes and cliffs to the east.
		Mountain is draped with grass/forb/shrub meadows, aspen woodlands, rock outcrops, sage steppe, and snow (much of the year).
		Steens Mountain area is one of the most extensive areas of good habitat for Greater Sage-Grouse in Oregon.
	www.oregoniba.org /steensmtn.htm (124 words)

	GORP - Steen Mountain Wilderness, Oregon
		Steens Mountain offers two recreational activities that are usually as seen as mutually exclusive: wilderness area and scenic driving.
		Mountain big sagebrush is found on flat to gently sloping areas with deep, well-drained soils, and may reach 2-3 feet in height.
		On the Steens Loop Road, these rocky areas are most noticeable for about 1-1/2 miles when driving west on the southern portion of the Loop Road from the East Rim Viewpoint, and near the turnoff to Kiger Gorge Viewpoint on the North Loop Road.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_wilderness_area/or_steen.htm (1403 words)

	Steens - September 2004 Planet Newsletter - Sierra Club
		Crowning Oregon’s empty quarter is 9,733-foot Steens Mountain, an oasis of aspen groves, clear-running streams, glacier-scoured gorges, and wildlife habitat in a sea of sagebrush hundreds of miles wide.
		Conservationists used Babbitt’s support of permanent protection for Steens as a catalyst to gain the protections they were seeking and to ensure passage of a wilderness bill that did not contain exceptions to the Wilderness Act.
		Clinton’s signing of the Steens Act was cause for celebration among all parties involved, and the collaborative process that led to it was heralded as a new model for protecting wild places nationwide.
	www.sierraclub.org /planet/200406/steens.asp (1253 words)

	Sheer drama: raised by lava, shaped by ice, Oregon's Steens Mountain is pure spectacle - includes related article on ...
		Much of Steens Mountain has been proposed for wilderness designation; until Congress decides yea or nay, it's being managed as if it already were.
		Steens Mountain is in southeastern Oregon near Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, sandwiched between the Alvord Desert and Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge.
		There are no formal hiking trails on Steens Mountain; hikers follow spontaneous footpaths or old four-wheel-drive vehicle roads, or they simply follow the river's path up one of the mountain's broad gorges, returning as they came.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1216/is_6_202/ai_54774161 (831 words)

	Steens Mountain Cooperative Management Protection Area (OR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Steens is the great anchor for high desert wilderness in this least-populous part of the state.
		The exemplar of this wild high-desert splendor is Steens Mountain, which the Congress protected as wilderness in 2000 through the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act of 2000.
		The diversity of the landscape is exceptional, ranging from harsh desert scrub, sagebrush and junipers to large groves of quaking aspen and small groves of Sierran white firs and alpine bunch grass high on the mountain.
	www.wilderness.org /WhereWeWork/Oregon/steens.cfm (920 words)

	Directions to steens
		From: John G On Steen's mountain, an ideal site in summer would be the parking lot at the top of the Kieger Gorge.
		There is a campground approximately 3 miles back down the road (on Steen's Mountain Road, called Jackman Springs, or something like that), and the light from it is blocked by canyon walls and trees in the camp area.
		Steens itself is a fault block mountain, actually not a mountain range.
	www.patch.com /astro/starsites/steens.html (2503 words)

	10k Truth Race Report - Steens Rim Run, Oregon
		Another one of their runners looked at the pale, gray ribbon of mountain road disappearing in the distance as he hitched a ride back to the start after the race was over and said with disbelief, "We ran that?" The longest distance he'd ever run before was eight miles, and that was in Missouri!
		Steens Mountain is one of Oregon's most pristine and treasured wilderness areas.
		The Steens Rim Run, as the Coop says, is "one for the runners punch card." While Coop could not make this particular trip, I'll bet he's not far behind me. Runners who finish are rewarded with a spectacular view of the Alvord Desert that is literally 5,000 feet straight down.
	www.10ktruth.com /the_races/steens.htm (3389 words)

	Aspen Photo Workshops
		One of Oregon’s most spectacular landmarks, Steen’s Mountain Management and Protection area is an incredible 500,000 acre located in the Southeast Oregon desert.
		Steen’s Mountain is nearly 10,000 vertical feet and 30 miles long, an enormous fault block that rose up millions of years ago to cut a bold line between the greener western slope and the desolate Alvord desert on the east side.
		Steens Mountain is approximately 170 SE of Bend, Oregon and approximately 200 miles SW of Boise, Idaho.
	www.aspenphotoworkshops.com /photoadventures/steens.htm (782 words)

	Cutthroat Dreams and a Mountain called Steens, Fish Sniffer Online
		"Steens", as the locals call it, is a basaltic monolith approximately fifty miles long and twenty-five miles across, jutting out of the Southeastern Oregon desert.
		The temperature was in the thirties and the wind was blowing at least 30 knots.
		Since it was still early, I continued on Steens Mountain Loop, the only road on the mountain.
	www.fishsniffer.com /steelhead/092599steens.html (1809 words)

	Steens Mountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Steens Mountain is a classic example of Basin and Range topography.
		The mountain is home to a variety of endemic flowering plants, which are under heavy pressure from cattle grazing.
		Though grazing is still a problem on the mountain, in particular considering the existence of fragile endemic plants in sub-alpine meadows, keep in mind that grazing has greatly diminished from the 1800s, when hundreds of thousands of sheep shared the slopes with large herds of cattle.
	donb.furfly.net /malheur/places/steens.html (431 words)

	Steens Mountain and Alvord Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Visible throughout Southeastern Oregon, Steens Mountain is the crown jewel of the Oregon High Desert.
		Steens cannot be protected by hoping that visitors will somehow never find out about it and never come.
		The Wilderness Society Economic Study of Harney County (where Steens Mountain is located) is available to view.
	www.onda.org /projects/steens (810 words)

	Harney County Chamber of Commerce - Burns, Oregon - Steens Mountain
		Unlike ranges such as the Cascades where towering peaks can beckon from hundreds of miles away, the Steens seem to be hiding as you drive from Frenchglen.
		The landscape is treeless at first with open rolling hills, then at the Kiger Gorge overlook there's the sudden drop-off to the emerald floor of the great glacial scoop.
		At the summit, travelers can retrace the route to Frenchglen or complete the other 26 miles of the Steens Mountain loop road and return to Highway 205, about 10 miles south of Frenchglen.
	www.harneycounty.com /SteensMtn.htm (695 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Notice of Availability of the Andrews Management Unit/Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and ...
		The SMAC was established by the Secretary of the Interior as mandated by the Steens Act to advise the Secretary in preparation and implementation of a management plan for the CMPA including the Steens Mountain Wilderness.
		The proposed alternatives for the Steens Mountain Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers plan were developed during the RMP process and have had the same level of public involvement.
		Comments on the Steens Mountain Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Plan should be mailed to Gary Foulkes, Project Manager, Bureau of Land Management, 28910 Highway 20 West, Hines, Oregon, 97738, faxed to 541-573-4411, or e-mailed to OR_Burns_RMP@or.blm.gov.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2004/August/Day-13/i18256.htm (1424 words)

	steenssite geology
		This is because of the mountains between it and the ocean.
		At the edge of the desert next to the mountains there are deposits of sediment from Steens Mountain.
		They are formed as streams carry sediments from the mountain and drop them at the margin of the Alvord Desert.
	web.pdx.edu /~ruzickaa/UNST421/spring01class/geology/AlvordDesert.html (349 words)

	Oregon Wildlife: Great Basin and Owyhee Uplands, Malheur National Wildlfie Refuge, Oregn Environment
		The Steens is single, huge fault block mountain, 50 miles long and the highest in southeastern Oregon, and one of the largest in the world.
		Snow and rain that fall on the mountain drain to the west and then flow north through rich tule marshes and meadows to Malheur Lake.
		During the last ice age, ice and snow built up on Steens Mountain it was the only region in the Basin and Range to support large ice masses.
	emc.rio.com /68Steens.html (606 words)

	The Steens Mountain Protection Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The passage of the Steens act is the largest land conservation legislation in Oregon since the Wilderness Act in 1984.
		The Steens Mountain Act officially protects 175,000 acres surrounding the mountain as a federal wilderness area, 100,000 of which will be closed to cattle.
		A number of other streams within Steens Mountain that harbor significant redband populations will also receive protection in the form of increased stream flows and enhanced riparian habitat.
	www.ortrout.org /8success/steens.html (300 words)

	SummitPost - Steens Mountain -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
		Steens Mountain is a 30 mile long fault scarp that forms an alpine island above the high desert of southeastern Oregon.
		The mountain's spectacular glacial gorges contain beautiful trout streams that are fed by snowbanks which often last through the summer.
		The highest point on this massive mountain is a short walk on a rough (and gated) road that departs from the loop road.
	www.summitpost.org /mountain/rock/150771/steens-mountain.html (513 words)

	OSU Press at Oregon State University
		A significant contribution to Oregon and Great Basin flora, this comprehensive field guide identifies plants of Steens Mountain and surrounding areas in southeastern Oregon, including Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Diamond Craters, and the Alvord Desert.
		Steens Mountain, the northern most fault-block mountain range in the Great Basin, is a botanically rich region that in recent years has become a popular destination for outdoor enthusiasts and naturalists.
		Flora of Steens Mountain offers an invaluable resource for amateur and professional botanists, as well as anyone seeking to better understand the region's rich and diverse plant life.
	oregonstate.edu /dept/press/e-f/FloraSteens.html (255 words)

	ODFW
		Due to the passage of the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act of 2000 (the Act) (P.L. 106-399, October 30, 2000), access to certain areas and landownership in the area will change.
		In this bill, the 170,000-acre Steens Mountain Wilderness Area was created and the use of motorized or mechanized vehicles (4-wheel drive vehicles, All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), motorcycles, etc.), mechanical transport (mountain bikes, game carts, etc.), motorized equipment (chain saws, etc.), and the landing of aircraft are prohibited.
		Also, a new Steens Mountain Hunt Unit #69 map is now available for $5.00 at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Office, 237 Hines Blvd., Hines, Oregon (no mail or phone orders).
	www.dfw.state.or.us /ODFWhtml/InfoCntrFish/steens_access.htm (385 words)

	Dramatic gorges, rustic town punctuate beauty of Steens Mountain
		Steens Mountain is a wild, remote scarp, a desert island in the sky.
		It's about 30 miles from Frenchglen to the 9,733-foot top of Steens Mountain where you peer out over the Alvord Desert and think about how steep the east side of this rock is and how flat and vast the Great Basin is way down below.
		In the early days when the mountain was being settled, the ladies of the night set up shop here, providing companionship for sheepherders and homesteaders.
	www.traditionalmountaineering.org /News_Steens_trip.htm (522 words)

	Steens Mountain Arborglyphs
		From the late 1800s until 1934 the Steens was open summer range land to over 100,000 sheep each year, about 2000 per herd, cared for by the mainly Basque and Irish herders and their camp tenders.
		The Basques in particular came to the Steens to work from their small land which includes the Pyrenees Mountains along the border of Spain and France.
		But once upon a time the dust clouds could be seen for miles as the sheep were trailed up to their cool meadow ranges that this unusual fault block mountain provided the animals.
	www.steensmountain.com /steens_mountain_arborglyphs.htm (1037 words)

	Steens Mountain in Oregon, U.S.A.
		It's windy mirror of the sky is nestled in an unbelievably green glacial cirque near the highest point of 9,733 ft. Steens Mountain...Just over the rim of the lake's south shore lies Little Wildhorse Lake, at 8910 ft, it doesn't quite grab the title* of "Highest Lake in Oregon.".....
		An excellent pictorial resource for the Steens themselves is Charles Conkling's "coffee table" picture book entitled "Steens Mountain in Oregon's High Desert Country." Conkling's book may be ordered via Oregonphoto's Affiliate Bookstore status with Barnes and Noble.
		Just enter "Steens Mountain" into their search engine at the top of the page using the keyword search and you'll be right there, and their price is excellent.
	www.oregonphotos.com /pagethree-C.html (856 words)

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