Wednesday, July 31, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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The Nugget Newspaper Crossword
By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service
PHOTO BY SUE STAFFORD
A fireplace installation at Camp Sisters.
CAMP SISTERS: Citizens
restored Depression-
era CCC structures
Continued from page 5
maintenance supervisor, was
a CCC enrollee in 1935, com-
ing to Camp Sisters as part
of a company from North
Dakota. When he was dis-
charged in March 1937 in
North Dakota, he returned to
Bend with two other former
CCC boys to live and work.
Sadly, when the CCC pro-
gram ended in 1942, Camp
Sisters was abandoned. All
the buildings were removed
by a salvage company and
the meadow returned to
its natural state. However,
the projects undertaken by
the young men of the CCC
remained as their legacy.
While at Camp Sisters,
they completed, among oth-
ers, the following projects:
" Road
construc-
tion to Three Creek Lake
with improvements to the
campground.
" Nine experimental plots
and experimental station
development at Pringle Falls.
" Seven miles of
forest trail built along
Tumalo Creek 11 miles west
of Bend.
" Amenity development
along the Metolius River,
at Suttle and Dark Lakes,
and along the Santiam and
McKenzie highways.
Those amenities included
outdoor kitchens with fire-
places, cupboards and cook-
ing units, tables and benches,
and toilets and garbage pits
for picnicking and camping
by the public.
In 2006-2008, local
citizens restored the CCC-
constructed shelters along
the Metolius to once again be
used by the public.
The work accomplished
by the CCC companies at
Camp Sisters made it pos-
sible for the public to get to
and enjoy many of the beau-
tiful recreation areas on the
Deschutes National Forest,
because of the many miles
of road they built and the
improvements made to camp
sites. They also helped curb
the pine beetle and fire dam-
age to the ponderosa pine, on
which the local loggers and
sawmills depended. Along
the way, they learned valu-
able skills and life lessons.
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