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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Rachel Odell / The Bulletin
May 21, 2002
Sitting in a canoe in the twisting and curvy Big Marsh Creek as whooping cranes seek food on the shore and Canadian geese fly overhead, it is difficult to imagine the watery marsh as a dry meadow.
Until about five years ago, European settlers and, later, Oregon farmers, spent decades draining....