It's no surprise that a 530-mile route through Northeast Oregon would include some amazing landmarks along the way. The Blue Mountains Trail is almost entirely on existing trails and old gravel or 4x4 roads, and it traverses a long legacy of human use, extending from the Native Americans whose livelihoods and cultural traditions have been sustained from these lands since time immemorial. Western settlement altered these lands in a myriad of ways that we will see for future ge

This article was originally published on the author Marina Richie's blog at https://beltedkingfisher.blog/2021/08/31/lostine-river-corridor-logging-lament-and-a-promise and is republished her with her permission. Marina Richie serves on GHCC's Board of Directors. How often do we circle back to the places we tried to save and could not? What is it to bear witness? What is it to know the meaning of a “shifting baseline?” What can we learn and apply to future efforts to save int