October 28, 1988: From its headwaters to the confluence with the South Fork Blitzen and Little Blitzen, including the tributaries: Little Blitzen River, South Fork Blitzen River, Big Indian Creek, Little Indian Creek and Fish Creek. In 1864, an Army commander who, when forced to cross the river during a thunderstorm, named the river Donner ünd Blitzen, which is German for thunder and lightning. The snow- and spring-fed rivers cut through dramatic canyons before passing onto the flat open wetlands of the Refuge where there is no outlet. Originating on the western slopes of the Steens Mountains in remote southeast Oregon, the Blitzen River and its many tributaries flow 91 miles northwest to the nearby Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
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