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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Rachel Odell / The Bulletin
January 6, 2002
For more than a century, the Deschutes River has nursed farms and ranches and other developments throughout the High Desert.
Meandering from its headwaters at Lava Lakes north to the Columbia River, the Deschutes sustains many who use its waters.
Almost as soon as the area was settled, state....