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Beulah Reservoir - Fossil Bearing Deposits

Beulah Reservoir Fossils – Discovering Ancient Leaf Impressions

2025-03-06
Negro Rock Rockhounding

Negro Rock – Hunting for Petrified Wood in Eastern Oregon

2025-03-03
Butte Creek at Crowley Road Rockhounding

Butte Creek at Crowley Road: A Remote Rockhounding Adventure

2025-02-25
Cottonwood Creek Oregon Rocks and Minerals

Cottonwood Creek at Crowley Road – Rockhounding in the High Desert

2025-02-23
Harney Basin Oregon Rockhounding

Harney Basin Rockhounding: Exploring Ancient Lakebed

2025-02-16
Mud Ridge Obsidian

Mud Ridge at Burns – Oregon’s Volcanic Glass

2025-02-13
Warm Springs Reservoir Rockhounding Oregon agate

Warm Springs Reservoir – Rockhounding Adventure in Eastern Oregon

2025-01-10
North Beede Reservoir Rockhounding Oregon

Exploring North Beede Reservoir: Rockhounding Guide

2024-11-29
Haystack Butte Jasper Rockhounding Oregon

Haystack Butte – Explore Oregon’s Owyhee High Desert

2024-11-17
Twin Springs Rockhounding

Twin Springs – High Desert of the Oregon Owyhee Uplands

2024-11-15
Plush Sunstone Oregon Sunstone Collection Area - Free Digging in Rabbit Basin

Oregon Sunstone Public Collection Area – Free Digging in Rabbit Basin

2024-10-28
Flook Lake Oregon Rockhounding Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge

Flook Lake – Discovering Treasures of Ancient Inland Sea

2024-08-14

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