An Australian company staked a massive lithium claim on the desert playa only to find the land is off limits to mining. Stakes mark a mining claim in the Alvord Desert near Fields, Ore. Reedy Lagoon ...

See more Outdoors content at IdahoPress.com by clicking hereThe flat, beige-colored bed of the Alvord Desert in southeastern Oregon will lure you in like the taste of salt on fresh popcorn. The ...

Using a grid of wind sensors and weather stations, the researchers aimed to capture data as these dusty vortices passed through their measurement array. The challenging fieldwork serves as crucial ...

While camping in Oregon's Alvord Desert, a couple found a digital camera containing hundreds of photos – and a clue about its ...

There's no place quite like Steens Mountain, a 50-mile fault block mountain that rises to almost 10,000 feet above the Alvord Desert in southeastern Oregon. It's a place where you can backpack into ...