Josephy Center Presents: The Owyhee River Journals

The cities of Joseph, Enterprise and surrounding communities will have a rare and special opportunity to take a vicarious journey with author, Bonnie Olin, into one of the most remote areas in the lower 48 states – The Owyhee Canyonlands – by way of a talk, slideshow, and movie. If you are an outdoor enthusiast or an armchair adventurer, you won’t want to miss seeing the Owyhee, because you won’t find yourself there on the way to anywhere else.

Olin has been kayaking with her husband Mike Quigley for 28 years, using rivers as their highways into the wild. Quiqley has been exploring the Owyhee since the mid 1970s and introduced Olin to these canyonlands in 1993. Together, they have spent the last 24 years exploring these canyons, kayaking the river and hiking the side canyons from river to rim, countless times. They know, from first hand experience, there are many reasons to protect the region.

The canyon geology offers some of the most stunning visual examples of rhyolite formations on our planet. It is unlike Bryce, Zion, Canyonlands or the Grand Canyon. We have a golden opportunity to protect a landscape like no other in the lower 48 states that could easily qualify for National Park status for its unique geologic beauty. It is public land. It belongs to all of us. And yet, the Oregon section of the region remains unprotected.

PRESENTATION INCLUDES:

• A talk which includes a brief history of the region, location information, some geology of the canyon, what makes this region special and efforts to protect it.
• 13 min. slideshow showing the entire Owyhee region, from Nevada to the Owyhee reservoir in Oregon
• Short reading from the book and introduction to the following movie,
• 20 minute movie video of a 2006 expedition into Deep Creek and the East Fork of the Owyhee River (these are the upper regions of the Owyhee in Idaho and Oregon)
• Q & A period
• Signed Book Copies Available