region, caused the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to abruptly terminate the reservation in 1879. The Northern Paiute would survive virtually landless until obtaining tracts of land near Burns in 1935. The basin has a widespread decline in groundwater which has put the region at risk of ecological and economic collapse. Irrigation pumping is dropping the water table as much as every year in one area. See also Oregon Outback References External links USFWS: Archaeology in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Oregon Magazine: Harney Basin John Day Fossil Beds: History Archaeological sites in Oregon Structural basins of the United States Geography of Harney County, Oregon