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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Eric Flowers / The Bulletin
July 30, 2004
For more than 20 years the sprinkler system churned night and day during irrigation season at Basil Karras' property, which sits between a rural subdivision and a vast expanse of federal land east of Tumalo.
But this summer Karras' tractor sits idle and his irrigation pumps and lines are gone.....