Registration PNW Section Summer Meeting & Tour June 20th to 22nd~ Baker City, Name Phone #: Address: City:. State! Province: Zip Code Email: Registration fee includes the following: 2 breakfasts (donuts and coffee), Thursday lunch and evening BBQ, tour transportation (including Sumpter Valley Train ride). Additional BBQ tickets can be purchased for $25! person. Online registration will be available soon. Check the PNW Section website at http:!!pnw.rangelands.org. # Persons Total Amount To register by mail, make a check payable to

Early registration fee by May 25th $75 X______= “Central Oregon SRM” & send with registration form to: Late registration fee after May 25th $90 X______= Extra Banquet ticket (Thurs evening) $25 X______= Crook County OSU Extension Service (all fees in U.S. dollars) CM) Baker City SRM 498 SE Lynn Blvd For more info on the tour contact: Prinevflle, OR 97754 Mitch Thomas (541)523-1323 v (CanadIan residents please send money order in U.S. dollars If Cory Parsons (54 1)523- 6418 cow.narsons~ore2onstate.edu paying by mail)

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Wednesday June 2001 3:00- 4:00pm: Board the steam powered, narrow gauge Best Western Sunridge Conference Room Sumpter Valley Railway @ McEwen traveling to Sumpter. 1:OO-5:OOpm: Advisory Council) BOD meetings 4:00- 5:00 pm: Tour Sumpter Dredge. The 1240 ton floating (open to all) dredge is currently an Oregon State Park and provides an 6:00-8:OOpm: Registration and social, Speaker (TBA) opportunity to view the floating behemoth that drew $4.5 million dollars of gold from the Sumpter Valley at a price of $35 per ounce between 1935- 1954. Thursday June 21” 5:00- 6:30pm: Tn- tip BBQ at Sumpter Fairgrounds 7:00- 8:00am: Coffee and donuts 6:30pm: load buses and return to Baker City Best Western Sunridge Parking Lot

8:00- 10:00am: Powder River Off-stream Livestock Watering Friday June 22nd Developments between Baker City and Haines, OR. 7:30- 8:00am: Coffee and donuts 10:00- 11:00am: Travel to McEwen Train Depot and Park Best Western Sunridge Parking Lot which is the boarding station for the Sumpter Valley Railway which operates a steam powered narrow gauge railroad which 8:00am - 12:00pm: Keating Valley Tour of the Cooperative travels some of the same line from the 1890s. Conservation Project Initiative (CCPJ). A partnership of local ranchers and government agencies is attempting to restore a 11:00am- 12:00pm: Field Picnic 60,000 acre block of sagebrush steppe that is infected with 12:00 3:00pm: Sumpter Valley Ranches tour and bovine medusahead rye. We plan on visiting portions of the project to dredge reclamation. Approximately 6 miles of the Sumpter explain goals, methods, and challenges of this unique project. Valley was dredged for gold between 1934 to 1954. Local 12:00pm: Arrive in Baker City ranchers have developed a unique way of restoring some productivity back on these lands. ‘~IO AIIDM3NV41 NNI ]oclnlNns N’8ILS]M .LS]9CIN~Z wiO~3.Nfl(

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Places to Stay Best Western Sunridge Inn 541-523-6444 • Request the SRM group rate at Best Western Engine No. 19 at the Sumpter Depot • Located just off 1-84 at Campbell Street exit Eldorado Inn 541-523-6494 Super 8 Motel 541-523-8282 Rodeway Inn 541-523-2242 Mtn. View Holiday RV Park 541-523-4824 / USFS Union Creek Camp 541-523-4476 (20 m. west of Baker) More hotel contacts: p: w w.basecarnpbiker corn Things to do in the Baker Area A National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center is a 11,000 square foot museum located atop Flagstaff Hill dedicated to the Oregon Trail. Bitterroot In the area Baker Heritage Museum tells the story of Baker County History complete with a rock collection, farming equipment, and historic photos.

Chinese Walls (Granite Area) hand stacked rock walls produced by Chinese miners who re-worked a gold field. Sumpter Valley Dredge Reclamation Project Leo Adler Memorial Pathway Paved nver path in Baker City that follows the tree lined Powder River through the center of town. Elkhorn Scenic Byway is 106 mile paved loop that encircles an entire range of high peaks in the Elkhorn range of the Blue Mountains. It is a very popular loop for motorcycles.