Originating on the western slopes of the Steens Mountains in remote southeast Oregon, the Blitzen River and its many tributaries (including the Little Blitzen seen here!) flow 91 miles northwest to the nearby Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The snow- and spring-fed rivers cut through dramatic canyons before passing onto the flat open wetlands of the Refuge where there is no outlet. In 1864, an Army commander who, when forced to cross the river during a thunderstorm, named the river Donner ünd
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Originating on the western slopes of the Steens Mountains in remote southeast Oregon, the Blitzen River and its many tributaries (including the Little Blitzen seen here!) flow 91 miles northwest to the nearby Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The snow- and spring-fed rivers cut through dramatic canyons before passing onto the flat open wetlands of the Refuge where there is no outlet. In 1864, an Army commander who, when forced to cross the river during a thunderstorm, named the river Donner ünd
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