Wallowa County Chieftain
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March 11, 2015
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spending will be on
Chinook waters
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The Imnaha Basin, cur-
rently at 72 percent, was at
86 percent a year ago. Else-
where in Northeast Oregon,
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conditions were signifi-
a long-term basis.
GRMW was founded cantly worse, with NRCS
At the recommendation in 1992 and its mission al- warning that water users in
of the federal government ways has been to restore the Powder and Burnt Riv-
and the Bonneville Power ¿VK KDELWDW LQ WKH *UDQGH er drainages “should expect
Administration — the latter Ronde Basin. Technically, shortages this coming sum-
being GRMW’s most reli- says Oveson, all of Wallowa mer and begin to prepare
able source of funding — the County with the exception accordingly.”
predominance of GRMW’s of the Imnaha Basin is part
spending through 2018 will of the Grande Ronde Basin,
be directed toward Chinook “yet Imnaha always has been
waters in the Upper Grande part of our service area.”
Ronde and Catherine Creek
Although the GRMW se-
areas.
cures grant money from oth- Continued from Page A1
Still, at least three projects er sources, its primary source
After three years, Jackson
in Wallowa County are on the of funding is the Bonneville
said he and the Forest Ser-
drawing board to begin either Power Administration.
right away, possibly late in
Within the past year, says vice “grew disillusioned with
2015, or maybe in 2016 or Oveson, GRMW has begun each other.” He saw an ad for
2017.
taking a less active role in a Wallowa lumber company
Of GRMW’s six full- implementing projects. At called J. Herbert Bate and ap-
time employees, the one SUHVHQW WKH QRQSUR¿W URX plied for the job.
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He relocated to Wallowa
Wallowa County is Coby enhancement projects and in April 1951.
Menton. Menton is a project then names entities to ac-
“I still hear people talking
manager, has been employed tivate selected projects us- about the Bates Mill, and it
E\WKHQRQSUR¿WIRU\HDUV ing procured grant monies. didn’t have an S at the end,”
and regularly works closely Partners today include the Jackson said.
with landowners and project Oregon Department of Fish
Working at Bate until a
partners.
and Wildlife, Confederated large strike in 1962, Jackson
Menton says Steve Linley Tribes of the Umatilla, Nez struck out for the pastures of
Contracting, of Union, has Perce Tribe, Union Soil & the Joseph Lumber Company
been awarded the contract Water Conservation District, where he worked as a forester
and given the go-ahead to and the U.S. Forest Service, until 1967 when the compa-
stage materials for a mean- Oveson says.
ny sold out to Boise Cascade.
der-creating project on the
Wallowa County Com- The skills Jackson developed
Wallowa River east of Sun- missioner Mike Hayward has as a forester placed him in
rise Road, between Enter- been on the GRMW board of good stead for his next phase
prise and Lostine. Priced in directors for 18 years, the last of his life as he became a sur-
the $450,000 range, the in- 14 years as chairman. “Over veyor.
tent of the project will be to the years the GRMW has
“In marking timber you
slow down the river on the 6 KHOSHG IDFLOLWDWH ¿VK KDELWDW have to stay within your
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channels as a safeguard. owners use their land without ing,” Jackson said. He started
That work stretching over impacting endangered spe- his surveying career early in
a space of about 2,000 feet cies,” Hayward says.
the 1970s.
where slacks in grade will be
a major factor in slowing the
water will be accompanied
by extensive planting of cot-
tonwoods, willows, and dog-
woods along the river, says
Menton.
The bulk of the 6 Ranch
effort will be completed in
the spring and summer of
2015 and essentially rep-
resents a change in philos-
ophy since about 50 years
ago when heavy equipment
regularly worked in rivers in
the county to straighten me-
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poses.
Another local GRMW-re-
lated project, one expected to
reach fruition in 2016, is the
Sheep Ridge diversion site
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of the city of Lostine on the
Lostine River. That project,
similar to another approxi-
mately $175,000 project un-
dertaken in 2012 a little clos-
er to the city of Lostine, will
be to upgrade an aging con-
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Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife. Menton says
the existing passage “no lon-
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dards.” GRMW and the Nez
Live In concert at The OK Theatre
Perce Tribe will co-sponsor
Thursday, April 23, 2015 Doors at 6pm
the upgrade project.
Menton says the Nez
Opening act Mid Lo at 7pm
The Riders in the Sky take the stage
Perce Tribe will sponsor yet
with their Roy Rogers Tribute show at 8pm
another project along the
Tickets are $35 ADV
Lostine River that might be
They
go
up
to
$45 April 1 and $50 At the door.
implemented in 2016 or even
Available at Joseph Hardware, The Dollar Stretcher,
2017. Monies now are be-
M. Crow & Co. , and The Lostine Tavern
ing sought to take that Tul-
ley Hill diversion upgrade
Sponsored by:
through the conception and
The Lostine Tavern (LT) • Mountain View Glass
design stages. A diversion on
Log House RV • Hostetter Law Group
the Tulley Hill Ditch was re-
Thompson Auto Supply • Eagle's View Inn & Suites
placed in the mid-1990s, but
The Dollar Stretcher • Stangels Buffalo Ranch
that has been less than effec-
Testermans Texaco • Main Street Motors
tive, and the goal now is to
Community Bank
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The report’s section on
Northeast Oregon (Grande
Ronde, Powder, Burnt and
Imnaha basins) also noted
major reservoir water stor-
age levels ranging from 69
percent of average at Phil-
lips Lake to 174 percent of
average at Wallowa Lake.
Many other parts of the
state were looking especial-
ly dry, however.
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snow measuring sites with
long-term records are expe-
riencing all-time record low
snowpack.
“Most of these sites are
spread throughout the Cas-
cades. However, as the dry
and warm conditions have
continued, records have
spread eastward in the
state,” Oviatt said. “These
record lows have not been
observed since the SNOTEL
monitoring network was in-
stalled in the late 1970s and
early 1980s.”
The latest information
on Oregon’s streamflow
forecasts can be found in
the March Water Supply
Outlook Report, available
on the NRCS Snow Survey
website at www.or.nrcs.
usda.gov/snow.
NRCS publishes six
monthly Oregon Water
Supply Outlook Reports
between Jan. 1 and June 1
every year.
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Preferring to work for
himself, Jackson started his
own business. One of his
more memorable jobs in-
cluded doing the preliminary
surveying for the Tramway at
Wallowa Lake.
After retirement, Jackson
taught evening community
classes at Enterprise High
School in both forestry and
computers in the 1980s and
’90s. “Computers have got-
ten way too complicated
for me now,” he said with a
laugh.
Jackson showed his mind
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lessly recited the entire poem
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illustrate during biology and
botany classes in college. I
got high grades, and I think
my illustrations had a lot to
do with it,” he said.
The accomplishment of
which Jackson is most proud
and the legacy he’d like to
leave is the Goebel Jackson
tree farm he started with the
Goebel family on 160 acres
on Alder Slope. “The tree
farm was just an idea that
came up. I’ve been pretty dis-
appointed in what the Forest
Service and timber compa-
nies have done with the land.
The tree farm is my legacy
of taking care of the land,”
Jackson said.
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Director Lacey Doss recently
experienced Jackson’s trick-
ery when he switched out
her full bottle of Mountain
Dew for an empty during a
recent meeting. Doss said she
spent the day worrying she’d
lost her mind as she didn’t
remember emptying the bot-
tle. Jackson confessed to the
crime a week later.
Jackson no longer indulg-
es much in his old hobby of
painting and illustrating, but
several of his excellent ren-
derings, including a cardi-
nal and a sunset, hang in his
room. “I learned to paint and

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