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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Abby Haight / The Bulletin
September 25, 2009
PORTLAND — Lawrence Martin remembers from his boyhood how Evans Creek flowed like an artery in the Rogue River Valley — a deep, cold stream that gave life to salmon, steelhead and other species.
Then the forests upstream were clear-cut in the 1950s. Floods scoured out the channel and stripped....