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Deschutes National Forest Recreation and Information Guide 1995-96 Meanwhile At the Bat Cave. ats are among the most earth. They are the primary foresters billions of dollars gentle, beneficial, and predators of vast numbers of annually. Bats also pollinate Bnecessar y animals on insect pests that cost farmers and flowers and disperse seeds that make the forests grow and deserts bloom! There are roughly 2,500 bats state-wide, and about 17% of these (almost 500) spend their winters hibernating on the Bend/Ft. Rock Ranger District. They need special consideration during their hibernation (winter) and nursery (Spring and Summer) periods. Hibernating bats require relatively stable temperatures between 32 and 49 degrees F, as PHOTO: COURTESY OF BAT CONSERVATION INC. well as peace and quiet to make bats are to survive. Bats which To help prevent further decline it through the winter. Fat stored are forced to use up their stored of bat populations the Bureau of during the fall is slowly PHOTO: SHERRI LEE fat due to repeated disturbance Land Management (BLM) and Monument Discovery Days — see page 2 metabolized and must last will starve to death or will not the Forest Service have joined through the winter months if the have the energy necessary to forces to help our favorite flying wake themselves up in the mammals. In accordance with spring. When bats are disturbed the Cave Resources Protection Hey Kids Meet the Beetles! during hibernation it wastes Act of 1988, numerous activities We may be just anywhere from 10 to 70 days are now prohibited in all caves borrowing the earth worth of fat reserves. such as : removing, disturbing, from our children, but or destroying any natural or Similarly, bats need special many kids are willing cultural feature; use of fire, consideration during nursery to help us out right fireworks or firearms; smoking; now. This year on the season as well. Females of most camping; possessing domestic Sisters Ranger District, Oregon bat species use caves to animals; installing or leaving students from the ages give birth and rear their young. climbing equipment. of 6-16 have With a slow reproductive rate, volunteered their time, (an average of one pup born per A number of seasonal closures of energy, and enthusiasm female every two years)any caves on the Deschutes National in new studies of the disturbance during this rearing Forest will also be in effect to "little things that run period can cause abandonment. help prevent further decline and the earth" inver­ Females who try and flee with promote recovery of Townsend's tebrates, including pup in tow run the risk of Big Eared Bat. Bat Cave and insects, spiders, and dropping the pup in flight. Wind Cave are two of the more tiny soil dwelling Humans within sight or sound of popular caves which are arthropods. These bats create sufficient disturbance seasonally closed to entry during organisms perform key for abandonment. the hibernation period between roles in forest PHOTO: TOM IRACI (continued on page 3) ecosystems, but in forest floor, including dwelling arthropods to many cases are not well beetles, spiders, ants, burrow down and known or understood. centipedes, millipedes, and accumulate at the bottom. TABLE OF CONTENTS pseudoscorpions. Soil Accessible Sites 2 The kid-powered studies of Working in the Metolius the forest floor and soil samples are collected for Forest Map ....4 "behavioral extraction" in Research Natural Area, an creatures use two methods old growth pine forest where Geothermal Energy 6 to capture these forest Berlese Funnels, where a Aliens in the Forest 7 light source at the top of the fire has been reintroduced dwellers. Pitfall traps with prescribed burns, Resort Directory ...... 8 capture those traversing the funnel drives mites, springtails and other soil (continued on page 3) HELP WANTED: lakes, admire wildflowers and birds. Identify stars at night. Volunteers needed to help Welcome to HARD WORK, NO PAY, BIG REWARDS. with winter and summer naturalist pro­ Fulltime volunteers wanted. Housing provid­ grams. Hard work - not! Call 593-2421. MONUMENT ed. Hookups available. Build trails or staff a the Deschutes visitor center in the pines, share your knowl­ MAKE UP YOUR OWN JOB! Volunteers "In A Sand County Almanac, edge and experience with others, spend all wanted with serious interest in geology, ar­ DISCOVERY DAY day on top of Mt. Bachelor, or... 593-2421. chaeology, wildlife, birds, botany or... we will Aldo Leopold wrote, 'A thing is train if you are dedicated. Satisfaction guar­ right when it tends to preserve TOUGH JOB - someone needed to do it! anteed to all who join us in the stewardship August 12, 13 1995 the integrity, stability, and beau­ Ski in the morning, snowshoe in the after­ of the Deschutes National Forest. Call 593- ty of the biotic community. It is noon. Guide new friends around mountain 2421 to apply. wrong when it tends otherwise.' Personal Messages: Join the National Forest We on the Deschutes National Green Team. Campers, visitors and civic organiza­ Forest value the beauty and di­ tions can volunteer to handle simple, necessary main­ versity of the resources we man­ tenance jobs around a National Forest Campground. age and welcome you to enjoy Pass on the gift of a beautiful forest. Call (503) 388- this special place. A wide variety of recreational 2715. opportunities, diverse land­ scapes, breathtaking scenery, and abundant wildlife awaits you. Take advantage of Forest Service offices and visitor cen­ ters for current information SCHEDULE OF EVENTS about places to see, what to do, and how to get there. Canoe with Forest Service Interpreter Enjoy your stay in central Ore­ Wilderness Safety Tips gon. We look forward to caring Fire Safety Learn About Smokejumping for the land and serving you during your stay in the De­ Birds of Prey schutes National Forest. Flintknapping Demonstrations Thanks for joining us. Interpretive Walks on Big Obsidian Flow Archeology / Geology Activities Shuttle Bus to Paulina Peak Story Tellers SALLY COLLINS Star Party Forest Supervisor Nature Walks, Lots To Do and See

Accessible Sites Humans heed this! Please don't feed us! Golden-Mantled Ground in the Forest Squirrels (Spermophilius lateralis) and Yellow-Pine The Deschutes National Forest has a number of wheelchair barrier Chipmunks (Eutamias free sites that provide a variety of recreational opportunities. They ameonus) attract the attention include viewpoints, new campsites and restrooms, fish viewing areas, of many Lava Lands visitors. paved scenic trails and boat launches. Feeding animals which inhabit If you want to camp, check out Crane Prairie Reservoir Campground the area is almost as popular an which has several barrier free campsites that are adjacent to toilets. attraction as walking through New this summer are the addition of two barrier free campsites and the 6,200 year old lava flow. one toilet at Gull Point campground. Though these animals are cute The following campgrounds will have barrier free toilets installed this and friendly, their contact with spring, with barrier free campsites to be installed during the summer humans pose a threat to of 1995; PHOTO: SHERRI LEE themselves and their human If it doesn't grow in the woods, it's not squirrel food! Besson Camp,Cultus Boat Ramp, Big River, Quinn River,Bull Bend, admirers.High numbers of well. Rodents bite, and may encourage you to watch the Quinn Meadow Horse Camp, North Davis, Cultus Corral Horse these small creatures are a Camp, Little Fawn Group Camp result of unnatural carry infectious diseases. animals collect natural food Especially in dense while you enjoy observing their If a scenic trail cruise suites you, explore the new Ray Atkeson circumstances. Though these animals willingly accept food populations, outbreaks of natural behavior. Memorial Trail along the shores of Sparks Lake. There is a 1/4 mile disease can spread swiftly paved portion and a 2 mile dirt trail. from humans, they have Natural food is food which among animals and quickly become dangerously grows in the area. If you don't At Browns Mountain Crossing at the Deschutes River, folks can see become a danger to humans. dependent on unnatural see it growing in the area, it is the Kokanee runs in September from the barrier free fish viewing Germs can be transmitted by feeding habits. Losing their not healthy for the animals. platform. bites, fleas, or even close natural instincts, the animals Next time you visit Lava For the daring, the chair lifts at Mt. Bachelor can accommodate contact. may starve to death during the Lands, look around and try to wheelchairs for those who want to ride to the 9065' summit for the winter. Human food they While visiting Lava Lands list five things the squirrels and spectacular view. collect and store away may Visitor's Center, or any area chipmunks might eat. (Hint: At Hosmer Lake, there is a barrier free canoe launch for those who become rancid and cause the inhabited by wild animals, help seeds, plants, bugs, birds, or want to fish or explore the lake. animals harm when eaten. us protect wildlife and your any deceased animal.) No-no Lava Lands Visitors Center is easy to access, and there is a paved trail own health by refraining from foods are easy to list; peanuts, Feeding chipmunks and up to the Lava Butte lava flow behind the center. Lava Cast Forest feeding squirrels, chipmunks popcorn, bread, corn chips, squirrels threatens humans as Also has a paved self guided trail for barrier free access. and other animals. We sunflower seeds, potato chips... Bats (continued from page 1) Meet the Beetles! (continued from page 1) November 1 and April 15 each closures. students from OMSI's document the changes in We are grateful for their year. Other caves on the forest Ecologists now know that even Cascade Science School and invertebrate fauna through help. have seasonal closures in effect small disturbances can seriously Black Butte School in Camp the season. during the nursery months threaten entire systems of plant Sherman have installed between April 15 and September and animal life. Loss of plant and traps, collected, sorted and Asked why they are 30 each year. To deter animal diversity may be the most processed samples, acting as volunteering their time for disruptions during these times, serious global threat we face. If both field crew and the project, Black Butte cave names and locations are not we fail to respond to the need for "biodiversity technicians". students said they are not being publicized. Signs will be bat conservation, which includes As biodiversity technicians out to find a new species or installed at the mouth of those habitat protection, we gamble in training, students from a special bug that cures a seasonally closed caves with the quality of life we've Black Butte School clean disease. They simply want informing visitors about these come to enjoy. and rough sort similar bugs, to find out more about prepare specimens for final invertebrates, "get a good education by learning about Maret Pajutee, identification by Ecologist Sisters Ranger entomology experts, and research, and help the Forest Service. District Bend Pine Discovery Hikes and Nursery Canoe Tours! The Bend Pine Nursery has been Join a Forest Service Naturalist for a half day hike or a morning involved in a variety of new canoe tour. This summer we will again be offering Saturday projects lately. One of the Morning canoe tours with Max Peel at Hosmer Lake. Bring your newest is the propogation of own canoe and personal flotationdevice s and join us for a morning Aspen sticks. These "sticks" are of exploration around this scenic lake. We will visit beaver lodges, actually cuttings from mature Bald Eagle habitat, mysterious water outflows, and maybe even see Aspens, and when properly an otter or two. Tours meet at the South Hosmer Lake boat ramp at cared for will develop healthy 9:00 AM. Saturdays. root systems. If successful these PHOTO: SHERRI LEE sticks will be planted on both the Archaeological Dig Deschutes and Ochoco National DISCOVERY HIKE SCHEDULE: Forests. Ponderosa and July: Lodgepole pines as well as Saturday 1st: Wildflower Hike at Todd Lake 10:00 AM Dusting Away Clues bitterbrush are the main species Saturday 8th: Watchable Wildlife, grown at the nursery. Tours meet at Lava Lake boat ramp 10:00 AM gladly given! Please phone Saturday 15th: Geology Exploration at Sparks Lake, to the Past ahead 383-5640. At Odell Lake there appears to their relationship to the Mazama Ray Atkeson Trail, 10:00 AM be civilizations living on top of pumice which has been dated Saturday 22nd: From Tadpoles to Frogs, Todd Lake, 10:00 AM one another. Modern facilities about 6700 to 7000 years old. Saturday 29th: Watchable Wildlife, overlap with evidence from prior WHO'S WHO meet at Lava Lake boat ramp 10:00 AM cultures and it's giving the Radiocarbon dating of two Crescent Ranger District a charcoal samples from one of our August: Odell Lake sites shows us that William Clark Saturday 5th: Bird Watching, chance to research more effective (1770-1838), people lived in that area before meet at Cow Meadow Campground at 4:00 pm ways to manage the area. There of Lewis and Clark fame, the eruption of Mt. Mazama, Saturday 12th: Deschutes River Geology and Wildlife Exploration, are two resorts, five was influential in Pacific roughly 7500 years ago. Slough Camp to Benham Falls-meet at Slough Camp at 10:00 AM campgrounds, and 75 Northwest natural history. Currently the most recent Saturday 19th: Watchable Wildlife, recreational residences situated This dedicated scientist around the lake shore. There are occupation is dated at about 600 meet at Lava Lake Boat Ramp, 10:00 AM years ago. These are the first first documented many also at least 20 known plants and animals found Saturday 26th Bird Watching, archaeologically valuable sites in radiocarbon dates for any of the meet at Cow Meadow Campground at 4:00 PM Odell lake sites and we look in Oregon today. The many of the same locations as most well known is our the developments. forward to retrieving additional September: sample in 1995. favorite camp robber, the Saturday 1st: Geology Exploration at Sparks Lake, Clark's nutcracker. Since 1992 the district has meet at the Ray Atkeson Trail, 10:00 AM Pollen samples are another way focused attention on three of we can learn from the past. these sites, all prehistoric lithic Pollen can be preserved over a scatters with buried deposits. long period of time and and can These deposits could include give us clues to what types of Finders Keepers? projectile points, pieces of tools, plant life occupied our forest broken pots, jewlery, traded "Wow, look at this great When you are visiting conditions they were found. thousands of years ago. One of goods, basically anything left arrowhead I found, can I places in the country that We lose a piece of the big the Odell Lake sites showed behind by the first humans in the keep it?" This is a common have a rich cultural heritage picture every time an pollen evidence of a "major area. question we get about like the Deschutes National artifact is removed or environmental shift" from a cool, cultural artifacts found in Forest, we encourage you to disturbed. Archaeologists working in moist climate to dryer and warm the Deschutes National enjoy evidence of past central Oregon have long conditions before the eruptions Forest. Unfortunately, the cultures, but leave the The Forest Service asks your recognized the presence of of Mt. Mazama. answer to this question is artifacts where they were help in reporting theft and deposits of pumice from the no. The Archaeological found. Often people bring disturbance of artifacts by eruption of Mt. Mazama (Crater Archaeologists continue to study contacting the Deschutes the pre-history of the Odell Lake Resources Protection Act artifacts out of the field to Lake). We also know that we (ARPA) protects artifacts show them to a specialist National Forest Law have archaeological sites with area. If you find cultural artifacts Enforcement at 383-5510, or such as arrowheads, tools, or from disturbance or private more knowledgeable on the both buried (pre-Mazama) collection. If these artifacts subject. by calling 1-800-782-7643- occupations and a more recent pottery please enjoy them, but the anonymous 24 hour remember to leave them are disturbed or removed (post-Mazama) occupation above the information that they These specialists are at a hotline for tips on crimes on or within the pumice. The undisturbed. A puzzle with loss since they don't know public lands. missing pieces is never a could provide scientists is relative ages of these occupation gone forever. exactly where they came sites are easily determined from complete picture. from, and under what Talks on Family Entertainment Stargazing At Lava Butte the Top at the Campgrounds! summer sky. atMt. Learn about the stars and planets Learn about your National Forest weekend. Some of the themes URSA MAJOR from our resident stargazer. View while enjoying a little include the following: The Bear or? Jupiter, the moon and more Bachelor entertainment. Forest Service through a telescope. Hear the Visitors in central Oregon can Naturalists will be presenting What's Cookin' in that Dutch story of how Callisto the Great experience one of the best Interpretive programs with a Oven? Bear came to be where the Big viewpoints in the state from the variety of themes at the following Trappers and Pioneers: Early Dipper is today. Understand why top of Mt. Bachelor. Ride the campgrounds this summer. On History of Central Oregon the North Star was called the chair lifts up to the 9065' summit Friday evenings, beginning June Good Heavens! Star Gazing Central Fire by many Native and discover a fascinating 30th, programs will begin at Elk Parties Americans or why a Scorpion perspective of the Cascade Lake Campground, and every Blasts from the Past-Volcanoes of chases Orion the Great Warrior volcanoes. Forest Service Friday thereafter will rotate Central Oregon The heavens are overflowing this summer and share the magic endlessly around the Heavens. naturalists are on the summit to through campgrounds at Lava Flintknapping Demonstration- with stories told since time of stories and stars on selected give talks at 11:30 and 2:30, seven Lake, Crane Prairie, and South Pre-History of Central Oregon beyond memory, and these Friday evenings: The front gate at the Lava Lands Twin Lake. Beginning on stories have shaped the way we Visitors Center opens at 8:30 pm. days a week. They are also June 23 June 30 available all day to answer Saturday July 1st, Interpretive Look for up-to-date schedules of perceive the night sky. Some have At the last bend in the road Programs are scheduled every been told around the campfires of July 7 July 21 before the summit of Lava Butte, questions about geology, alpine these programs and their times July 28 August 4 Saturday evening at Cultus Lake posted at campgrounds, the Native Americans, others come to switch your headlights off and plants, trees of the forest, wildlife August 18 August 25 and the cultural history of the Amphitheater. These Friday and Bend/Ft.Rock Ranger District us from cultures of the dim, proceed slowly using your September 1 Cascades over the past 10,000 Saturday evening programs will Office, 383-5664 or the Bend distant past. The stories tell us parking lights. Then prepare to years. continue through Labor Day Welcome Center. about these people and speak of Bring a sweater, a ground explore the richness of legend brave deeds, magical creatures blanket, and your binoculars then lore and wonders galore waiting Mt. Bachelor is on your National and the connection between we lay back and enjoy one of central for you among the stars of the Forest and the Mt. Bachelor Ski humans on Earth and mythical Oregon's greatest assets- the night. and Summer Resort operates beings of the sky. under a special use permit with the Deschutes National Forest. Join us on top of Lava Butte (next The summer Lifts and the to Lava Lands Visitors Center) Sunrise Lodge are open from Memorial Day to Labor Day. It's A Fact Come and enjoy a spectacular The Deschutes National Forest view! was established by President Lift prices are Grover Cleveland September $9.00 Adults $4.50 Children 28,1893. Originally called the $6.50 Seniors Cascade Forest Reserve, the Forest was one of the earliest in For more information please the nation. contact the Bend /Fort Rock FILE PHOTO ••• Ranger District at 388-5664 Mt. Bachelor Summit The lava flow from Lava Butte is 30 to 100 feet thick and covers over 9 square miles. New Future for Wilderness PHOTO: BOB JENSEN Lava Butte The U.S. Forest Service is the following CHANGES are in appear year after year. Using developing new strategies to help effect: designated campsites will also preserve the land we all love and reduce impacts near sensitive One Day to Explore — value. These strategies are Limited Entry Permits: These riparian zones and areas of high designed to lessen ecological and permits are limited to 20 groups use. social impacts to Oregon's three per day and must be obtained in What Can I Do South of Bend? central wilderness areas: Mt. advance. They will affect the Campfire Restrictions: Campfires Let's begin at Lava Lands Visitors Falls" as French explorers named collapse. And, are usually much Jefferson, Three Sisters, and Mt. following locations: will be prohibited in several high Center, located on Highway 9713 it. Benham Falls, a scenic wider than they are high. Washington. use, high elevation areas where miles south of Bend, has several cascading waterfall, can be Follow signs to Paulina and East firewood gathering has depleted -Pamelia Lake (Mt Jefferson things to see and do. The Visitor reached by heading south from Lakes as Road 21 climbs up the Beginning Memorial Day 1995 supplies and threatens the Wilderness); Permits may be Center has interpretive displays Lava Lands parking lot four miles flanks of one of this country's function of local ecosystems. obtained from the Detroit Ranger about the geology and cultural on an improved gravel road largest volcanoes. At the crater's Station. WHO'S WHO history of central Oregon as well which ends at the parking lot and western edge is Paulina Falls. David Douglas These changes will affect many as on- site naturalists who give picnic area. Here you can follow Wildlife and numerous -Obsidian Area (Three Sisters wilderness visitors, but most of informative programs and help an old railroad grade, used recreational opportunities (1798-1834) all they will help keep the Wilderness); permits available at answer any questions you might primarily to fuel the booming including camping, fishing, is said to have more plants wilderness and your experience, the Mckenzie Ranger Station have. timber industry that flourished in hiking, and Mt. biking, the Big named after him than wild. The qualities of nature that Lava Lands has self guided Bend during the early part of this Obsidian Flow, and Paulina Peak anyone in history. Among Day and Overnight Permits: make wilderness so attractive and interpretive trails, to explore at century, to the falls. which offers a spectacular view of these is Oregon's State These are still needed for all three popular are compromised and your own pace. One, the Trail of Lava River Cave is only one mile the region. Tree,—the Douglas-Fir. He wildernesses, but now are damaged by our use. Become an was employed by the Molten Land, meanders over the south of Lava Lands on the east available at trail heads and are active partner and help the Forest Royal Horticultural 6000 year-old Lava Flow of Lava side of Highway 97. A not limited. Commercial outlets Service protect our wilderness Society of London to find Butte, an imposing cinder cone concessionaire can provide LAVA LANDS will not be issuing overnight areas. Please practice LEAVE NO VISITORS CENTER plants in the Pacific TRACE ethics when exploring behind the Visitors Center. From interpretive talks for a small fee permits as they have in the past. and rent lanterns to guide your Northwest in the early wilderness, or in any place in 9-4 daily through Labor Day, ride Before Memorial Day 1800's. While doing so, he the shuttle to the top of Lava way. Designated Campsites: your National Forest. 10-4 Wednesday-Sunday discovered many plants Butte, for a nominal fee. There Overnight users will be required From Lava River Cave continue for the first time including you can enjoy the panoramic Summer Schedule to use designated campsites in Kent Koeller south to Newberry Crater. the sugar pine, western view of central Oregon while 9-5 Every Day several high use areas. This will Wilderness, Bend/Ft.Rock Ranger Newberry "Crater" is actually a white pine, silver fir, and strolling along the rim trail. caldera — like Crater Lake. Oregon white oak. reduce the increasing numbers of District After Labor Day spontaneous campsites which Just west of Lava Lands is the Calderas are formed by a 10-4 Wednesday-Sunday Deschutes River or the "River of combination of explosion and Closed About October 15 Alien Invasion! Aggressive non-native plant species (noxious weeds) are invading Central Oregon. These plants increase fire hazards, replace wildlife forage, poison

livestock, reduce the quality of to recreational experiences, lower s property values and change the Bo T3 C character of the local n X environment. Lookouts on Maiden Peak, Black 2 many lookout towers and houses in many states. In Montana it u Butte, Walker Mountain, and E came to include living and work infests over 2 million acres! o Paulina Peak comprised the Spotted Knapweed is a member quarters in the same room. On to original system of detecting of the sunflower family and is o> Paulina Peak, a prefabricated 14 3 forest fires in this area. Fire considered a perennial, which I x 14 foot cabin was placed on the tn detection, prevention, and means it returns year after year. c rocks in 1932, replacing the o suppression was the major O) earlier one constructed by It has several upright stems 2-4 mission of the USFS after its Centaurea maculosa Lam. Spotted knapweed. A) habit — X Harpham. A new lookout on a feet tall with flower stems that establishment in 1907. 0.5; B) enlarged leaf — X1; C) flower head — X 2; D) disk flower short tower replaced that one in resemble an urn and hold many — X 3.5; E) achenes — X 4. pink to purple flowers. These In the early days when as few as 1964 which was later destroyed flowers occur from June to include: Bull Thistle, Canada weed by burning it or turning it two people in 1969 as the October and the seed production Thistle, Common Tansy, in to a ranger station. Thanks for were Forest Service is an amazing 400-25,000 seeds Dalmation Toadflax, St. John's your help in controlling the responsible for began to phase "going into the per plant. It is easy to see how a Wort, and the Tansy Ragwort just spread of noxious weeds. If you the lands that out woods is like going noxious weed can easily to name a few. have a question regarding presently widespread overtake native plant species noxious weeds on the Deschutes make up the home, for I suppose use of with this kind of production The native plants in this area and National Forest, contact: Deschutes lookouts. seed. the U.S. Forest Service are asking National we came from the you help to help control these Don Sargent, Range Specialist, Today, fire Forest, rangers noxious weeds. After positively woods originally." detection is Noxious plants and seeds are often identifying the plant as a noxious —John Muir still an brought to non-native areas by It's A Fact performed the under-carriages of passenger weed it should be removed. If Snowpack from Mt. Bahcelor detection important no flowers or seed present: Pull issue on the vehicles, heavy equipment, feed ends up in Lava and Little duties while for domestic and non-domestic the weed and leave it on the area. Lava lakes after filtering patrolling, climbing peaks on Deschutes National Forest. If flowers or seed present on the Presently, there are eleven animals, and even outboard through thousands of feet of horseback for a "lookout". You weed: Pull the weed. Be careful lookout facilities, seven of which motors-that's right there's pourous igneous rock. These can imagine the trouble these seed does not fall from the weed. are continuously staffed noxious weeds in the water too. two lakes are the headwaters of men had enlisting fire fighters to Place the weed in a plastic bag or throughout fire season. These Noxious weeds in this area the Deschutes River. fight fires in remote areas of the similar container. Dispose of women and men watch over the backcountry. forest during the summer, Assistant Forest Supervisor Vern looking for smokes and Harpham built the first lookout performing their duties as Newberry is Steamin' Up! cabin on Paulina Peak in 1917. stewards over public lands. Geothermal energy could be in May, with the drilling of a deep megawatts to be produced by the Timbers were hauled by wagon the future of central Oregon. In exploration well. Aspects of the project, 20 megawatts will be to the outlet of Paulina Lake, June, 1994, the Deschutes project include development of purchased by Bonneville Power then dragged in bundles up the National Forest Supervisor and up to 14 well pads and one 33- Adminisrtation for the northwest three mile trail to the site. By the WHO'S WHO the Prineville BLM District megawatt power plant. energy grid, and 10 megawatts time Vern finally finished John Kirk Manager selected an alternative Approximately 8 miles of new will be purchased by Eugene building the 12 x 16 one room which allows for geothermal transmission line will be Water & Electric Board for their cabin on Paulina, he decided he wells and power plant constructed to connnect the Eugene/Springfield area needed a more efficient approach Townsend (1809-1851), development on the west flank power plant with existing customers. CE Exploration to the construction of a lookout of Philadelphia discovered of Newberry Volcano in central powerlines. Care will be taken to Company, a Portland, Oregon house on Walker Mountain. He many animals here in the Oregon. The project will be reduce environmental impact. based subsidiary of California came up with the idea that to Northwest including, the located on federal geothermal Air and water quality will be Energy Company, Inc., of save time and effort, he would Townsend's solitaire and leases outside of Newberry carefully monitored. Omaha, Nebraska, is the build a stone cabin from the rock Townsend's big-eared bat. National Volcanic Monument. developer. found at the top of the mountain. The Newberry Geothermal Pilot However, his passion for Newberry is regarded as one of But efficiency was not the result project will demonstrate one of Alice Doremus collecting and preserving the most promising sites for as he found the native sand the many multiple uses for Geothermal Coordinator, Bend/Ft. animals for scientific research geothermal resources in the unsuitable for concrete, and no which the Deschutes National Rock Ranger District was the death of him. country, and the preliminary water source available. He was Forest is managed. This is an Townsend and his collegues studies shows that geothermal forced to haul up sand and water exciting project which will would preserve specimens energy production can occur as well as cement to the summit provide a renewable alternative with large amounts of arsenic . here in an environmentally safe by pack train. Yet for all his source of energy to help meet the He died of chronic arsenic and efficient manner. difficulties, the cabin at Paulina region's growing need for poisoning at the age of 42. is gone today, while the one at Project implementation began in electrical power. Of the 30 (net) Forested Lavas - Just Trees on the Rocks? "What an unusual forest!", immense eruption of Mt. drought. exclaim most people when they Mazama (Crater Lake) about When trees have been harvested first walk through a landscape of 7700 years ago. Another source on forested lava, it is now clear forested lava. Growing out of is from great, infrequent that traditional ways of planting the cracks and openings of windstorms that swept away soil seedlings to replace the rugged, rocky lava flows are in one area and carried it to harvested trees do not work. forests of pine and fir. No soil to another. However, the normal People planting the seedlings be seen — only trees and rocks. way of making soil- by lichens cannot find soil to plant them in. and micro-organisms feasting on So far, natural regeneration Much of the Deschutes National rocks which then disintegrate-is seems to be the only way these Forest is armored with lava. not the normal way in central remarkable forests can recreate Some is so young and rugged — Oregon. Volcanic eruptions and themselves. a few thousand years old — that the effects of glaciers during ice even to walk on it is to invite ages happen too frequently for Researchers are now beginning a falls, bruises, and torn clothes. PHOTO: SHERRI LEE the slow munching lichens to study of forested lava south of These barren flows seem like Lava Cast Forest flow 6000 years (trees at edge of flow). make much of a contribution. Mt. Bachelor to learn what goes they belong to a different planet. on in the underworld of rocks, The forested lavas-the strange On the other hand, older lava — roots, and microorganisms. Very ones- have acquired soil but not say 50,000 years old or more — likely, they will have some enough to bury the lava. In fact, might be buried in so much soil surprises to report one of these the soil has raveled and trickled that only a few rocky knobs hint days. A good place to see down into the cracks and at the lava below. These soil forested lava is the area underground open spaces where covered lavas usually support a immediately west of Wake Butte little of it can be seen. Every normal forest if precipitation is along Road 40 about 15 miles year seeds from all sorts of plants adequate. In between these new southwest of Lava Lands Visitors and trees rain down on the lava and old lavas are the strange Center. Another is west of the in showers appropriate to their ones, the ones that support a Santiam Pass along Highway 126 season. The seeds may forest seemingly with no soil. in the area of Clear Lake. germinate if they reach the underground soils. But the new Young, barren lava flows like Larry Chitwood, Geologist and PHOTO: SHERRI LEE those at Lava Butte or McKenzie plants can thrive only if there is Karen Bennett, Soil Scientist Roots of fallen tree encrusted with boulders, on forested lava. Pass will eventually become enough light, water, and buried in soil. Here, soils will nutrients. Isolated soil pockets come from many sources as they can provide an ideal flowerpot Community Partners in Science for a ponderosa pine seed to have in the past. Mostly, they The fish and wildlife department Tumalo Creek area drainage and germinate in. If the seedling can bird boxes, bat boxes and squirrel come from volcanic eruptions on the Bend/Ft. Rock Ranger adjacent areas during the spring, extend its roots to nearby nests. The Bend/Ft. Rock Ranger that generate a lot of ash. The District has joined forces with the summer and fall of 1995. Projects flowerpots, it may grow into a District will be providing ash is carried away by winds and Oregon Museum of Science and include: streamflow monitoring large, healthy tree. Otherwise it technical support, equipment, spread over the landscape. The Industry's Cascade Science and mapping; surveys of aquatic may spend a long life as a and lumber for the projects, most recent and important single School on a challenge cost share insects, amphibians, timber and natural bonsai pine, or worse, it while the Opportunity event that added soil to all land project. They will gather water quality; streamside tree may die of thirst during a year of Foundation of Central Oregon of central Oregon was the biological data within the planting; and the construction of will provide assistance with the construction of bird and bat boxes. Cousin Paul's Fishing Tips The Cascade Science School is located in the historic and newly The term float tubing, or aquatic insects and their life stonefly imitations work well in revitalized Sky liner's Lodge next in the early days, belly cycle in central Oregon lakes will the shallow water near the to the site of the Bridge Creek boating, described a increase your chances of catching shoreline. Try a dry fly pattern Fire of 1979. That fire burned method of fishing from fish. Aquatic insects spend most like a size 16 Adams or nearly 4300 acres in and around anintertube. . of their life underwater as Comparadun. Keep in mind that the Tumalo watershed, which nymphs or larvae, then emerge during the hatch, nymphs will be supplies water to the city of Why use a float tube? In to the surface to reproduce, then rising to the surface to emerge Bend. By surveying the clear water you can not die to culminate their life cycle. into their final life stage. Often, ecosystem for various plant and only see the fish swim these insects are intercepted by animal species, creating habitat underneath you, but also Insect hatches of this reservoir's fish just before reaching the and providing the stream bank get a better view of ecosystem include Mayflies, surface. with native tree species, the underwater channels, Caddisflies, Dragonflies, Forest Service hopes to revitalize aquatic insect hatches, Damselflies, and Midges. This If you like to fish with nymphs, this ecosystem. and maybe even that abundance of food accounts for patterns like a Hare's Ear, Cate's otter fishing along side of the large growth of the fish at Turkey, or Neme's soft-hackle you. Crane Prairie. patterns work very well. Also, It's A Fact don't forget black or olive Those large moths you may Crane Prairie Reservoir Odell lake, located on the colored Wooly Bugger for the old see this year are Pandora on the Bend /Ft. Rock Crescent District, is known for standby. Black or olive colored Moths. They will be laying Ranger District has it's Kokanee and Mackinaw in a size 10 to 6 account for many eggs that hatch and always been a hot spot fishing. Trolling from boats to fish caught each year. for large rainbow trout. depths of fifty to one hundred overwinter as caterpillars that Trout in the three to five feet is common in order to catch Remember, Crane Prairie and emerge in the spring and eat pound range and some in these large coldwater fish. Odell Lake are only two lakes on Ponderosa Pine trees. the eight to ten pound Unlike Crane Prairie, which has the Deschutes National Forest. ••• range are caught each an average depth of ten feet, Numerous lakes and streams Of the total Lava Butte year. Odell lake is two hundred and offer other fly fishing eruption volume, 10% was eighty-seven feet deep. opportunities. What makes these fish so erupted into the air as big? It's the food they eat When float tubing, or fishing Paul Chan, cinders, while 90% erupted as PHOTO: SHERRI LEE a lava flow. of course. Knowledge of from a boat at Odell, mayfly and Crescent Ranger District. National Fishing Day FOREST OUTFITTERS/GUIDES/RESORTS Directory No endorsement of a particular commercial SUNRIVER LODGE & RESORT service or establishment by the USDA Forest FISHING SERVICE PO Box 3609 Service should be implied, nor is this list Sunriver, OR 97707 intended to be complete. (503)593-1221 GUIDES OFFICES Canoe rentals & pickup service BIGFOOT GUIDE RESORTS SERVICE Deschutes National Forest CRANE PRAIRIE RESORT Craig Vaage Supervisor's Office Reservations HORSE PACKERS 21725 McCormic Hill Road 1645 Highway 20 E PO Box 1171 Bend, OR 97701 BLACK BUTTE RANCH Hillsboro, OR 97123 Bend, OR 97701 Pat & Jody Schatz PO Box 8000 (503) 538-2027/(503) 593-2552 (503) 383-3939 (503)388-2715 Black Butte Ranch, OR 97759 DESCHUTES RIVER OUTFITTERS summer only (503)595-6211 Fred Foisset/Greg Price Guided trips, hayrides, breakfast rides and BBQ 61115 S. Hwy 97 Bend/Fort Rock District CRESCENT LAKE RESORT rides 1230 NE 3rd St. Suite A 262 PO Box 73 Bend, OR 97702 Bend, OR 97701 Crescent Lake, OR 97425 BLUE LAKE CORRALS (503)388-8191 Gary and Maggie Hoeppner (503) 388-5664 Now operated by Black Butte Stables GARRISON'S GUIDE SERVICE (503) 433-2505 1340 Suttle Lake Road John Garrison Sisters Ranger District year round Sisters, OR 97759 (503) 595-2826/(503) 595-6671 PO Box 4113 P.O. Box 249 CULTUS LAKE RESORT Sunriver, OR 97707 Sisters, OR 97759 PO Box 262 INN OF THE SEVENTH MOUNTAIN (503) 593-8394 (503) 549-2111 Bend, OR 97709 PO Box 1207 HIGH CASCADE DESCENT Tom May Bend, OR 97709 Todd Vander Zwiep (503)389-5125/037-244 (503)382-8711 Crescent Ranger District 1250 NW Davenport summer only Guided day trips near the Inn P.O. Box 208 Bend, OR 97701 Crescent, OR 97733 EAST LAKE RESORT PROFESSIONAL EQUESTRIAN (503) 389-0562 (503) 433-2234 PO Box 95 SERVICES LaPine, OR 97739 MICKEY FINN GUIDE SERVICE Norm Rudolf (503) 536-2230 Pat Schatz Eagle Crest Resort Equestrian Center Lava Lands Visitor Center summer only PO Box 1171 58201 Hwy. 97 PO Box 194 Bend, OR 97701 Bend, OR 97707 ELK LAKE RESORT Redmond, OR 97756 (503) 383-3939 (503) 923-2072 (503) 593-2421 PO Box 789 Horse packers and trail rides Bend, OR 97709 ODELL LAKE RESORT all year QUINN MEADOW HORSE CAMP Dana Knepper Bend Pine Nursery PO Box 72 High Lakes Contractors 63095 Deschutes Market Rd. LAVA LAKE LODGE Crescent Lake, OR 97725 (503) 382-9433 Bend, OR 97701 PO Box 989 Gated horse camp, Reservations required (503) 383-5640 Bend, OR 97709 OUTDOOR ADVENTURES PLUS Joann and Jim Frazee SUNRIVER LODGE & RESORT 4030 West Amazon (503) 382-7587 Eugene, OR 97405 Redmond Air Center PO Box 3609 summer only 1740 SEOchoco Way Sunriver, OR 97709 SHELTER COVE RESORT Redmond, OR 97756 ODELL LAKE RESORT (503)593-1221 (Stables) Mike Jones Guided day trips near Sunriver (503) 548-5071 (Hwy 58-East Access Odell Lake) PO Box 52 PO Box 72 Crescent Lake, OR 97425 Crescent Lake, OR 97425 (503) 433-2548 John & Janet Milandin LLAMA PACKERS SUNRIVER OUTFITTERS, Ltd. EMERGENCY (503) 433-2540 PO Box 6 Camp Sherman, OR 97730 Bob Gaviglio/Bruce Bischof PAULINA LAKE RESORT (503) 595-2088 PO Box 3012 Deschutes County dial 911 PO Box 7 Tom & Madeleine Landis Sunriver, OR 97707 Gilchrist area 433-2279 LaPine, OR 97739 Trips, drop camps and rentals (503)593-8814 (503) 536-2240 Crescent area 433-2400 all year WHITE WATER & WILD FISH WINTER ACTIVITIES Craig Lacy SHELTER COVE RESORT 57 Pinecrest Court (Hwy. 58-West Access Odell Lake) PAULINA TOURS Bend, OR 97701 FIRES PO Box 52 Todd Brown (503) 389-2434 Crescent Lake, OR 97425 (503)536-5916 Flyfishing only Dial 911 Doug & Bernice MacMillan BLUE LAKE RESORT (503) 433-2548 Editor: Steve Arnold Star Route WINDSURFING Sisters, OR 97759 Typesetting: Bobbi Page SUTTLE LAKE RESORT CASCADE LAKES WINDSURFING (503) 595-6662 (503) 595-6671 Design & Layout: Creative Typesetting Snow cat shuttles service & nordic skiing on Mats Hjelm THREE CREEK LAKE groomed trails 1293 NW Wall Bend, OR 97701 MARINA/STORE FANTASTIC RECREATION (503) 389-8759 (503) 345-7665 summer only RENTALS PO Box 7046 TWIN LAKES RESORT Bend, OR 97708 MOUNTAIN BIKE TRIPS PO Box 3550 (503) 389-5640 HIGH CASCADE DESCENT Sunriver, OR 97707 Snowmobile guided trips & rentals Todd Vander Zwiep (503) 385-2188 (503) 593-6262 1250 NW Davenport summer only MT. BACHELOR INC. SKI Bend, OR 97701 & SUMMER RESORT (503) 389-0562 PO Box 1031 Mountain bike tours & rentals BOATING Bend, OR 97709 Office 382-2442 PACIFIC CREST PEDALERS HUNTER Ski Report 382-7888 Scott Rapp/Amy Lefor EXPEDITIONS P.O. Box 4772 Sunriver OR 97707 PO Box 346 OREGON TRAIL OF DREAMS (503) 593-8369 tours 383-5058 Bend, OR 97709 Dog Sled Rides Whitewater raft trips Jerry Scdoris (503) 389-8370 (503) 382-2442 INTERPRETIVE 1-800-829-2442 (Reservations) INN OF THE SEVENTH MOUNTAIN GUIDES PO Box 1207 WANDERLUST TOURS, INC. (503) 382-8711 SHUTTLE SERVICE E. David Nissen Canoe rentals & Whitewater raft trips LAVA BUTTE SHUTTLE 143 SW Cleveland SUN COUNTRY TOURS Bend, OR 97701 (503) 389-8359 PO Box 771 WANDERLUST TOURS, INC. 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