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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Jim Witty / The Bulletin
August 9, 2006
Everything about Wickiup Reservoir is big.
The lake. The fish. And the project that created it.
That decadelong undertaking, started in the late 1930s, impounded the Deschutes River behind a 2.6-mile earthen dam. Its purpose: to store irrigation water and deliver it to farmers in Madras, more....