What exactly makes something qualify as a piece of art? For Whit Deschner, nothing is out of the question, especially if it’s a well-licked salt block. For the past 13 years, the retired fisherman ...

Whit Deschner stands in the middle of a pasture outside of Baker, Ore., probably 30 or 40 feet away from a black cow licking a white salt block. To most of us, this may look like a bucolic scene from ...

A salt lick or mineral block is used to supplement much needed nutrients to the diets of livestock and even wildlife, such as deer. It’s like a good-for-you lollipop for animals, but in block form, ...

This Saturday, the annual Great Salt Lick auction and contest will take place in Baker City in Eastern Oregon. Whit Deschner, a retired commercial fisherman, poet and photographer, created the event ...

Buy a salt block at a feed store and you might be out $10. But after an animal has licked it? Why, then it becomes modern art. Salt blocks – those 50-pound cubes of salt offered to livestock and ...

This weekend is your chance to take home a one-of-a-kind, tongue-sculpted piece of modern art from one of Oregon’s most unique charity fundraisers. The 15th annual Great Salt Lick Auction returns to ...