Bend sits on the boundary of the Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills, a Level III ecoregion designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in the U. S. states of Oregon, Washington, and California, and the Deschutes River Valley, a Level IV ecoregion within the Blue Mountains Level III ecoregion.

The Bend Hawthorne Transit Center is a hub for the Cascades East Transit center with connections to intercity bus services including the HighDesert Point, Eastern Point, and the Central Oregon Breeze.

** NA0512 Eastern Cascades forests

In sparsely-populated northeastern are the Eastern Cascades forests.

There have been sporadic movements to create a 51st state out of Eastern Washington by splitting the current state down the Cascades, but proposals have rarely progressed out of the state legislature's committees.

* Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills ( ecoregion ), along the east side of the mountains

The people of Eastern Oregon also often express the same frustration with being coupled with Portland and the region west of the Cascades that Eastern Washingtonians do with respect to Seattle.

This commission was created because of the Donation Land Act in 1850 allowed citizens to settle up to and the government wanted the lands west of the Cascades for settlement and to move the tribes to Eastern Oregon.

The Shasta-Trinity NF lies at the intersection of the Eastern Klamath Mountains and the Southern Cascades ( Miles & Goudy, 1997 ), and is largely forested, though at low elevations there are areas of chaparral, woodland, and grassland.

* Eastern: based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Eastern Region ( R9 ) covers twenty states ( Maine, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, and New Jersey ), seventeen National Forests, one Grassland and America ’ s Outdoors Center for Conservation, Recreation, and Resources.

The name Rhudaur appears to be dialect Sindarin for " Eastern Forests ", and indeed Rhudaur was the most easterly of the three regions in which Arnor was divided.

* Eastern Arc Montane Forests ( Kenya, Tanzania )

* Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa

: The Eastern Himalayan Broadleaved Forests

: The Eastern Himalayan Sub-alpine Coniferous Forests

Today many of the Eastern National Forests are primarily second-growth forests and different in character than National Forests in the West created from huge forest reserves of largely virgin forest.

Eastern portions of Sierra NF were used for the Inyo and Toiyabe National Forests ; northern portions were used for the Yosemite National Park and the Stanislaus National Forest.

A Field Guide to Eastern Forests, pp. 19-20.

The Eastern Guinean forests, together with the other tropical moist broadleaf forests of West Africa, is included within Conservation International's Guinean Forests of West Africa biodiversity hotspot.

* USGS -- Caterpillars of Eastern Forests

Notes on the Distribution of the Endangered Lizard, Heloderma horridum charlesbogerti, in the Dry Forests of Eastern Guatemala: An Application of Multi-criteria Evaluation to Conservation.

In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, only flat panel or, mostly in small works such as ivories, bas relief images are used.

Though by this time opposition to images was strongly entrenched in Judaism and Islam, attribution of the impetus toward an iconoclastic movement in Eastern Orthodoxy to Muslims or Jews " seems to have been highly exaggerated, both by contemporaries and by modern scholars ".

Eastern Orthodox believe these qualify as icons, in that they were visible images depicting heavenly beings and, in the case of the cherubim, used to indirectly indicate God's presence above the Ark.

Catholics also, however, accept in principle the Eastern Orthodox veneration of images, believing that whenever approached, sacred images are to be reverenced.

Further inspired by other images of brave defiance, a wave of revolutions swept throughout the Eastern Bloc that year.

They are depicted on votive objects and altars that bear images of goddesses, depicted almost entirely in groups of three, that feature inscriptions ( about half of which feature Celtic names, and half of which feature Germanic names ), that were venerated in regions of Germania, Eastern Gaul, and upper Italy ( with a small distribution elsewhere ) that were occupied by the Roman army from the first to the fifth century AD.

These images are central icons of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity where Mary remains a central artistic topic.

The earliest consistent representations of Mother and Child were developed in the Eastern Empire, where despite an iconoclastic strain in culture that rejected physical representations as " idols ", respect for venerated images was expressed in the repetition of a narrow range of highly conventionalized types, the repeated images familiar as icons ( Greek " image ").

His catalog of lives of the saints became the standard for all of the Western and Eastern hagiographers, who would create relative biographies and images of the ideal saints by gradually departing from the real facts of their lives.

The controversy over the use of graven images, the interpretation of the Second Commandment, and the crisis of Byzantine Iconoclasm led to a standardization of religious imagery within the Eastern Orthodoxy.

These are in dogmatic theory venerated as objects filled with God's grace and power -- ( therefore Eastern Orthodoxy declares they are not " hollow forms " or cult images ).

Beliefs that certain images are historically authentic, or have acquired an authoritative status from Church tradition, remain powerful among some of the faithful, in both Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, and Roman Catholicism.

The controversy over the use of graven images, the interpretation of the Second Commandment, and the crisis of Byzantine Iconoclasm led to a standardization of religious imagery within the Eastern Orthodoxy.

He has documented a variety of armed conflicts and social issues, spending time in South Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union shooting pictures of war, conflict and famine, and images of socio-political issues ( pollution, crime and punishment ) in Western Europe and the United States.

Phrygians, however, were shown wearing the distinctive peaked cap in illustrations on Greek vases, and such images predate the earliest surviving literary sources: a mid-6th century Laconian cup depicts the capture of Silenus at a fountain house, by armed men in Eastern costume and pointed caps.

These images adapt Late Antique poses for barbarians submitting to an Emperor, and presenting golden wreaths, and indeed relate to images of tribute-bearers from various Mediterranean and ancient Near Eastern cultures going back many centuries.

There are images of two person weapon training in Chinese stone painting going back at least to the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In Cathedral released in 1995, the transcendental hallucinatory images were portrayed musically by cross-fertilizing the elements of Classical music ( mainly Church music and Gregorian chants ) and Techno / Psychedelic Trance ( Goa Trance ) with a touch of Eastern ancient-time music feel.

Eastern European pornography is usually not submitted to the BBFC due to their lower ages of consent for sexual images ( 14-16 ), but is available illegally from some shops ( images of 16-17 year olds are considered " child " pornography in the UK as of 2003, even though they are over the age of consent of 16 in the UK ).

New Testament images were commonly found at the beginning of western psalters, unlike in eastern psalters, but in this case the images depict scenes more common in the Eastern Orthodox liturgy.