Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Q&A photo Design for the Interpretive Center Site Overview Questions & answers...
Riverine environment As a west-side compliment to the High Desert Museum, this newly revised scheme celebrates water as a character-defining element. Where High Desert responds to a dry, relatively sere environment, the River Museum will respond to water past, present and future. Its flora and fauna riverine palette will be rich with seasonal colors. The walkways between parking and museum, and across the site, will be moist and green, redolent of the Western Cascades forest and its wetlands. The environment will say “river watershed” to its...
Support the creation of the McKenzie River Interpretive Center Hatchery logo Send your contribution to: Friends of Old McKenzie Fish Hatchery P.O. Box 506 Walterville, OR 97489 541-914-9089 Donations to Friends of Old McKenzie Fish Hatchery, a 501(c)(3) organization, are deductible on your federal income taxes....
Inside hatchery " For the Old McKenzie Fish Hatchery, the historic period of significance is correctly drawn from 1907, the date of earliest site development (the pond qualifies as a development of that date) to 1945, the latest development. The present hatchery is the third hatchery building on the site. It replaced a building of 1928, which burned in 1944. The original hatchery was built 1907. The McKenzie River site was selected for its proximity to a natural spawning area for Royal Chinook salmon, where the spawn, or eggs, could be collecte...
Water, Fish and Boats The McKenzie River is unique. Dr. Gordon Grant, a Forest Service Research Hydrologist in Corvallis, Oregon has noted that H. T. Stearns in 1929 documented that springs flowing from deep volcanic aquifers make up the base flow of the McKenzie River. High (“new” or “young”) Cascades lava flows such as those on McKenzie Pass are less than 1,500 years old and function as great hydrologic sponges. Snowmelt penetrates the lava and is stored in underground aquifers for as much as 20 years before emerging in large springs (Tamoli...
