Tim Davis is executive director of Friends of the Owyhee, a nonprofit based in Ontario. The local conservation group ...
The two snails occur in small, isolated populations in the Owyhee River in the Owyhee Canyonlands, a remote, rugged corner of eastern Oregon known as a geological wonder. Both snails are threatened by ...
The Owyhee Canyonlands are in remote southeastern Oregon and include Leslie Gulch Tuff, which is rhyolite ash that erupted 15.5 million years ago. (Bob Bush/Getty Images) A proposal to protect the ...