The Great Basin is a vast, ragged heart-shaped emptiness in the center of the West.
Often called the Sagebrush Ocean, the Great Basin is the ghost of a great inland sea
covering nearly 200,000 square miles. It includes eastern California, south central Oregon,
the western half of Utah, most of Nevada and the lower southeast corner of Idaho.

A large, mostly arid area from the Wasatch Mountains to the eastern Sierra,
 the Great Basin has always been a region apart, separate from other Western regions,
overpowering in its unbroken vistas, remarkable in its absence of sound

Considered barren by some, its treasures are in the exquisite landscapes,
untouched wilderness, vast ranchlands and people
 who for thousands of years have made a living
with the harshest facts of life  -- little rain, cold winters, blistering summers,
defined by the wide expanse of geography
and the sense of community without boundaries.