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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Jim Witty / The Bulletin
July 25, 2008
Everything about Wickiup Reservoir is big.
The lake. The fish. And the project that created it.
That decade-long 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....