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It looks like they are separate areas. — EncMstr 00:38, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
The National Forest Service has over the last 45 and particularly the last 20 years has built many horse trails and roads and is prospecting new roads in the North Warner Mountains to the same end. Uniquerman ( talk) 21:42, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Even a very brief perusal of articles on the web, illustrates that the Oregon Outback includes an area much larger than that of Klamath and Lake counties. I spend a lot of time in the southern regions of Harney and Malheur counties know many ranchers, small town dwellers, ranch hands, etc… and the southern reaches of these two counties, more than either Klamath or Lake, are defined as the Oregon Outback. I’m sorry, but who ever is claiming the title of Outback for Lake and Klamath don’t know what their business. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.178.103.226 ( talk) 20:13, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
There isn't any authoritative source because there isn't any official geographic designation. The article's reference [1] describes a highway that goes from Lapine in southern Deschutes County to Lakeview in Lake County. It has been designated a Scenic Byway by the USDOT. This falls short of defining a geographic territory. Reference [2] doesn't appear to define anything at all. Failing a statute enacted by the State legislature or some kind of county ordinance (which would by definition delimit an intra-county area), if the other legal questions of rights, responsibilities, and ownership could be solved, there will be no legal entity called Oregon Outback. Maybe the current Interior Secretary could find a way around this if he wished, something like the new "Wild Lands" designation. Otherwise, all or any of the land from Ontario south to the Nevada border (excluding perhaps the Owyhee River watershed), west across to Malin, north to Lapine, and across the northern edge of the Great Basin back to the western reaches of the Owyhee watershed could be called Oregon Outback. It's all of a piece in terrain and remoteness. In short, the Oregon Outback is anything anyone says it is. Uniquerman ( talk) 20:14, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
If the name is officially recognized by state, local and other entities, why is the name considered an unofficial "term" to describe the High Desert region of Oregon? Before I change it to reflect that it's just a term and delete unofficial, does anyone have some background on why it's written that way? Dbroer ( talk) 16:44, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
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It looks like they are separate areas. — EncMstr 00:38, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
The National Forest Service has over the last 45 and particularly the last 20 years has built many horse trails and roads and is prospecting new roads in the North Warner Mountains to the same end. Uniquerman ( talk) 21:42, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Even a very brief perusal of articles on the web, illustrates that the Oregon Outback includes an area much larger than that of Klamath and Lake counties. I spend a lot of time in the southern regions of Harney and Malheur counties know many ranchers, small town dwellers, ranch hands, etc… and the southern reaches of these two counties, more than either Klamath or Lake, are defined as the Oregon Outback. I’m sorry, but who ever is claiming the title of Outback for Lake and Klamath don’t know what their business. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.178.103.226 ( talk) 20:13, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
There isn't any authoritative source because there isn't any official geographic designation. The article's reference [1] describes a highway that goes from Lapine in southern Deschutes County to Lakeview in Lake County. It has been designated a Scenic Byway by the USDOT. This falls short of defining a geographic territory. Reference [2] doesn't appear to define anything at all. Failing a statute enacted by the State legislature or some kind of county ordinance (which would by definition delimit an intra-county area), if the other legal questions of rights, responsibilities, and ownership could be solved, there will be no legal entity called Oregon Outback. Maybe the current Interior Secretary could find a way around this if he wished, something like the new "Wild Lands" designation. Otherwise, all or any of the land from Ontario south to the Nevada border (excluding perhaps the Owyhee River watershed), west across to Malin, north to Lapine, and across the northern edge of the Great Basin back to the western reaches of the Owyhee watershed could be called Oregon Outback. It's all of a piece in terrain and remoteness. In short, the Oregon Outback is anything anyone says it is. Uniquerman ( talk) 20:14, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
If the name is officially recognized by state, local and other entities, why is the name considered an unofficial "term" to describe the High Desert region of Oregon? Before I change it to reflect that it's just a term and delete unofficial, does anyone have some background on why it's written that way? Dbroer ( talk) 16:44, 7 February 2014 (UTC)