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Chapter Home >> Conservation >> High Desert Home Page >> Land Development
The Conservationist's Solutions: Designation of Steens-Alvord as a protected area may provide the BLM with much-needed resources to acquire lands from willing sellers, giving the agency a chance to consolidate lands for more effective management. While passage of the act did involve some signinificant land exchanges, appropriation of funding legislated in the act for future acquisition and exchanges has been held up in Congress. Designation may also help the state of Oregon implement an additional conservation planning overlay that would encourage landowners to keep lands in open space--and help prevent "condo-mania" on Steens Mountain. While voluntary land trades were a critical part of the Steens bill, there are still many acres of private land which remain suseptible to development pressure. Protecting private lands adjacent to or within the Steens Mountain Wilderness and wilderness study areas from development remains an issue which begs for resolution. The designation of other wilderness and land trades elsewhere will provide the needed protection for areas such as the Owyhee Canyonlands. Take Action Now! Your actions now will help protect the Owyhee Canyonlands as well as encouraging continued protection for Steens Mt. - Alvord Basin. Please contact: Senator Wyden
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