Midday at Chief Joseph Canyon Poster

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Not all highways are covered with asphalt.

Some highways are animal trails, so traversed by wildlife that the path they form is distinctive and easy to see.

Other highways are bigger, less easy to identify, but very real (a reminder to us all that just because we can’t see something, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist). A highway like this is, or was, the bottomlands of Joseph Canyon, located in what is now called the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Northeast Oregon, USA.

Not that many years ago – up to the late mid-19th century – the Nez Perce people used this area as their highway from one seasonal living space to another. In the summers, they spent their time in the Wallowa Lake area of Oregon. Come winter, they headed east and down into the canyon as they walked their way to their winter campsites along the Grande Ronde and Snake Rivers.

They did this so regularly for so many years that one could not imagine life changing because everything...

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