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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Jim Witty / The Bulletin
March 7, 2007
Some things make an impression. And some linger long after the crucial moment has passed.
Like 50 million years after.
That's when tropical forests swaddled Eastern Oregon and Vulcan - incendiary and brash - was aglow over the land. Exotic mammals, ungainly and improbably large, browsed far and....