Southeast Oregon's Hidden Gems 4: Steens Mountain and Alvord Desert

Most Americans had never heard of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon – until 10 years ago this month, when a clutch of armed men and women stormed the birders’ paradise to make a point about the federal government, the state of the country, American history and themselves. The standoff finally ended in mid-February of 2016, two weeks after one of the wildlife-refuge occupiers, Robert LaVoy Finicum, was shot to death during a confrontation with the FBI and Oregon State Po