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Title: Sunriver Photographer Paul Evenson Documents a Local Eagle Family in Guardians of the High Desert, Now on Central Oregon Shelves

Buffalo, United States, 28th Oct 2026 - Paul Evenson spent long hours returning to watch a local bald eagle family near his home in Sunriver. The resulting photo essay, now carried by Central Oregon bookstores, retailers and institutions, pairs each photograph with natural history notes and the Native American traditions tied to the animals and the land.Paul Evenson did not set out to make a book. He set out to watch one family of bald eagles near his home in Sunriver, and then he kept going back. He returned again and again, sat for long stretches, and paid attention to how the adults moved and how the young birds changed from one visit to the next. Guardians of the High Desert, the photo essay that came out of all that returning, is available now in hardcover and ebook, and several Central Oregon bookstores, retailers, and institutions are carrying it.The eagles are the heart of the book. Two adults keep watch over a nest. Young eagles sit at its edge and study the sky, and one finally lets go of the branch in a first flight that is almost never graceful. Around that family, the book gathers the world they live in: a great gray owl watching from a fence post at dusk, a hawk caught mid-turn, elk grazing beneath a snow-covered peak at first light, and the Cascade peaks visible from Sunriver. Every photograph in the book was taken in Central Oregon. The word in the title is Evenson’s philosophy as much as a book name: the eagles guard a nest, and the owl, the hawk, and the elk each guard ground of their own. They are the guardians of the High Desert, and the book is a portrait of them holding it.The Waiting Is the WorkAlmost none of what went into this book happened quickly. Evenson explains that the photograph is the short part, and everything around it is long: driving...

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