In the Media

Around 30 Bend residents turned out Wednesday night to weigh in on the future of Mirror Pond at the first of two public meetings hosted by the Mirror Pond Steering Committee.

Although state Rep. Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte, hasn’t rushed to reintroduce a measure that would allow more water to be taken from the Columbia River, it’s not because he’s given up on the idea, but because it’s included in the governor’s budget.

An Oregon marine program is being billed as “stream enrichment," but it’s a lot smellier than it sounds.

The burden for the Bend City Council on the Bridge Creek pipeline project is that even as members of the council and city staff have been studying the issue for years, they are constantly told they don’t understand it and are ramming an unwanted, untenable project through without enough public input.

The city of Bend looks at the silting of Mirror Pond as a major problem. Bend needs to turn this around and discuss how it might be a gold mine. At some time in the near future, you will have to dredge the pond, as it is too valuable to not dredge or eliminate it.

The high desert of Central Oregon is a special region, blessed with abundant summer sunshine and a moderate climate.

Fisheries managers have announced that the popular spring chinook fishery on the Deschutes River will not open in 2013.

Now that we have a new mayor and council, opponents to the Surface Water Improvement Project (SWIP) will again express their opinions to stop the project. While I support opponents’ right to express opinions, the public deserves to know the facts and potential unintended consequences if SWIP is terminated.

A snow dump in the last week of January in the Cascades helped boost Central Oregon snowpack numbers back above normal for this time of year.