CCA Science Field Trip to Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

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North Fork John Day River    Highway between Burns and Frenchglen

Frenchglen Hotel    Arrival at Page Springs Campground

Building the Campfire--trying not to hurt the wood too much    Happy Campers

Preparing supper    Camp Meal

Campfire    Campfire Companions

Turkey Vulture on tower    Observing vultures

Sandhill Crane    Muskrat

Sagebrush Landscape    Center Patrol Road

Northern Shoveler Duck    Ring-necked Pheasant

Red-Winged Blackbirds    Yellow-headed Blackbird

Picnic at Refuge Headquarters   
Lunch    Lunch

Lunch!


Belding's Ground Squirrel    Great Horned Owl

Observing Owls    Museum


Museum    Road east from Refuge Headquaters towards Princeton

1870's Round Barn    Inside Round barn

Black Tailed Hare (Jackrabbit)    Cinder Cone at Diamond Craters

Volcanic Crater    Descending the Crater

Sam at bottom of Crater    Students in crater


Students reach the bottom    Side-blotched Lizard

Refuge Headquarters    Malheur Lake overlooking Refuge Headquarters

Cinders and Bombs at Diamond Craters    Pahoehoe Lava at Diamond Craters

Steen's Mountain    Looking Down into Crater

Climbing through passageways in the rocks    Climbing out of Crater

Cattle Ranch near Diamond    Sandhill Cranes courting

Refuge Sign    Frenchglen

Pine forests of Blue Mountains, Oregon    Light Stick in a Bottle

Breakfast    Campsite at Page Springs

Tent    The Narrows (about 30 miles south of Burns)

Western Grebes    Canyon City, Oregon

John Day River Valley    Picture Gorge (east of Dayville, Oregon)

Inside Picture Gorge, John Day River    Headquarters John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

Sheep Rock    Museum John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

Fossil Skulls    Paleontology Laboratory

Petrified Wood at Entrance to Museum