Friday, December 19, 2025

Farmland preservation

OTHELLO - Conserve and hold. The motto comes to us from an agrarian America when rural folks outnumbered the nation's city populations.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Cranes in Sheldon

OTHELLO – There is a land where high sagebrush desert runs on forever: no house, no fence, no lights for 500,000 serene acres, at night the firmament ablaze with stars. Table formations rise tall and long, escarpments hover. Pronghorn you see, bighorn sheep and wild horses and burros, rabbits, sage …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

30,000 cranes are flying to Othello

OTHELLO - Call it a grand confluence - 30,000 cranes descending
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO