Standoff Puts Oregon’s Malheur Back On Tourist Map
Posted 10-12-2016 by Kirk Siegler
A large flock of sandhill cranes squawks overhead as Brenden Quinlan watches what’s left of an early season snow storm roll off the massive Steens Mountain; the snow turning to sleet and then rain as it soaks the wetlands of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in remote eastern Oregon.
“It’s something I find that’s medicinal [to] come and hang out here,” Quinlan says. “It’s quiet.”
This was Quinlan’s first visit to the refuge in 44 years. He used to come with his Dad as a kid. It hadn’t occurred to him to return until this year, when he and his wife watched with alarm as armed militants took over the bird sanctuary, an anti-federal government protest that unfolded for 41 days of drama online and on the nightly news.
His wife, a native Oregonian, had never heard of the refuge, and Quinlan responded, “Oh my God we have to go.” So they planned this year’s week-long vacation here ...
https://news.wbhm.org/npr_story_post/2016/anti-government-standoff-puts-oregons-malheur-back-on-tourist-map/
= new reply since forum marked as read
That's all I will state here.
Except that...
I hope that they bring cameras to shoot some birds, photographically speaking.
R&K
