Oregon: Lake Abert

As we motored north and east into eastern Oregon, we came by Lake Abert.

It is an alkali lake next to the Abert Rim, a thirty mile long, 2,500 feet high fault scarp.

The lake was once part of a great basin that covered 460 square miles. An informative sign indicated brine shrimp thrive in the lake.

The lake dried up in 2014, the first time since the 1930s and there is concern for migrating birds that depend on it for food. The lake was once 16 feet deep but is now only two feet deep.