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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Mac McLean / The Bulletin
August 7, 2012
Jerry Ramsey climbed over a barbed-wire fence on the northeast slope of Gray Butte and walked over to a tree his great-grandparents, Julius and Sarah McCoin, planted when they settled in the area almost 120 years ago. Its branches, full of quarter-sized fruit, dangled toward the ground.
“We....
