Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Rainwater system in McKenzie River Reflections From MOTHER EARTH NEWS By Cheryl Long Harvesting rainwater to use for growing vegetables makes a great deal of sense. Unfortunately, the most common method of rainwater harvesting isn’t the most effective. Typically, gardeners invest in a rain barrel - which holds only 50 or 60 gallons of water - and then dole out the captured water to plants as needed, hopefully emptying the barrel before the next storm. But 50 gallons is only a small fraction of the water you could be harvesting each time it r...
Lava on the moon in McKenzie River Reflections When the moon is full and hanging low in the sky over Central Oregon, take a good close look at it. In one of its craters, surrounded by tire tracks and boot prints and the abandoned “moon buggy,” a tiny chunk of Oregon lies on its surface. Here’s how it got there: Starting around 1964, NASA started sending future lunar astronauts to various unusual places to study volcanic geology and to familiarize themselves with landscapes that they thought they might encounter on the moon. Although terre...
McKenzie River Fish Recovery Improvement Program Project to improve McKenzie River fish recovery BLUE RIVER: Salmon are now checking in at a truck stop after making their way from the Pacific Ocean to the South Fork of the McKenzie River. In the past they only got as far as the base of Cougar Dam, a 400 foot tall barrier between them and the high quality spawning habitat above it. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently completed construction of a $10.4 million permanent adult fish collection facility to help them out. It consists of a fish...
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