For readers who wouldn't set foot in a raft after reading "Adios Amigos," but would still like to
experience the Owyhee, the Sierra Club's Middle Snake Group leads desert dayhikes through the Owyhee
Canyonlands in the spring and fall. Contact Roger Singer, Sierra Club, P.O. Box 552, Boise ID 83701;
(208) 384-1023.
The Bureau of Land Management can provide recreation maps and information. Write to
the BLM at 100 E. Oregon St., Vale, OR 97918. Sierra Club Books offers The Sierra Club Guide to
the Natural Areas of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming by John Perry and Jane Greverus Perry (1988).
Also helpful is Sheldon Bluestein's Exploring Idaho's High Desert (Challenge Expedition Co.,
P.O. Box 1852, Boise, ID 83702; 1988), and (for those still undaunted) Idaho Whitewater by
Greg Moore (Class Six Whitewater, P.O Box 1794, McCall, ID 83638; 1989).
Enhanced Training in Idaho (ETI), a proposal for a U.S. Air Force bombing range, has cast a shadow over
more than 3 million acres of public land in Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon, including the Owyhee
Canyonlands. If the Air Force has its way, the region's solitude--and its bighorn sheep, pronghorn, mule
deer, and sage grouse--would be disrupted by some 30 bomber flights a day, each dropping its payload on
"target" areas spread throughout the wild open spaces. Members of the Owyhee Canyonlands Coalition,
including the Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, Idaho Conservation League, and Snake River Alliance, are
working to stop this military invasion. To help, contact the Sierra Club's Boise office at (208) 384-1023.
