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Museum: Gift given by Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation
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Finally, By Hand Through Memory will
be updated thanks to the gift. The Indige-
nous history exhibit opened in 1999, enabled
by the donation of the 7,000-object Doris
Bounds Swayze Collection — donated to the
museum way back in 1990.
“That exhibition has done an amazing job
for over 20 years, of connecting our visitors
to the Indigenous people, and it is time to
work with our tribal partners and bring the
contemporary stories to life in that space,”
Whitelaw said.
The museum is hopeful that construction
can begin within three years.
The Roundhouse Foundation was
launched in 2002 by Sisters artist Kathy De-
ggendorfer and her mother, Gert Boyle, well
known from her work as the chairwoman of
Columbia Sportswear prior to her death in
2019.
Initially focused on the arts and their eco-
nomic impact on Central Oregon, the foun-
dation over the years expanded its mission
to additionally focus on social services, edu-
cation and environmental stewardship, said
Erin Borla, executive director of the Round-
house Foundation.
“The museum is at the intersection of all
four of those,” Borla said. The $6 million
figure was determined through discussions
about the museum’s current state, its role in
the community and plans for future expan-
sion.
Park
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The park will also have a
Cascades East Transit bus stop.
“A lot of pedestrian con-
nections have gone in already
in that part of town, and as
Alpenglow continues to get
developed, there will be even
more,” Isaacson said.
Alpenglow Park is in line to
become the 86th park in Bend.
It will be the city’s first park
designed to be self-reliant for
energy use with solar panels
powering the lighting and irri-
gation systems, restrooms and
pavilion, according to the park
district.
Before breaking ground, 60
trees were removed from the
property and donated to Na-
tivity Woodlot, a firewood pro-
gram in Bend.
More than 100 new trees
will be planted before the park
opens next year.
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Threat
Submitted photos
The High Desert Museum, left, was built in 1982.
The museum’s plan for spending a $6 million gift
from the Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation
includes a permanent art gallery. The museum’s
growing collection includes “Golden,” above, by
James Lavadour. Acquired in 2018, it was last
seen by the public in the 2019 exhibit “Desert Re-
flections: Water Shapes the West.”
The museum has an annual operating
budget of about $5 million, Whitelaw said,
and drew 200,000 annual visitors. A recent
economic impact study by the consulting
firm ECONorthwest found the museum con-
tributes about $20 million annually to the lo-
cal economy.
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BY ERIC BARKER
Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune
Another set of scientists, this
one more than five-dozen deep,
is sounding the alarm over
Snake River salmon and steel-
head, saying if the imperiled fish
are to be saved, the four lower
Snake River dams must go.
On Monday, 68 fisheries
researchers from the Pacific
Northwest released a letter
penned to the region’s con-
gressional delegation, gover-
nors and fisheries policymak-
ers methodically making the
case for breaching the dams.
“This scientific recommen-
dation wasn’t taken lightly. This
is relying on a review of a large
preponderance of information
that a bunch of us analyzed
over and over again over the
years,” said Howard Schaller, a
retired fisheries research biol-
ogist who worked for the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
They compared the lifecycle
survival, known as smolt-to-
adult survival rates, of Snake
River salmon and steelhead,
and note the runs which must
pass eight dams as they mi-
grate to and from the ocean
have lower survival rates than
similar stocks in the Columbia
Basin that only have to make it
past four or fewer dams.
For example, wild steel-
head from the John Day River
in Oregon have an average
smolt-to-adult return rate of
5% and wild chinook from
the same river have a survival
rate of 3.6%. The Northwest
Power and Conservation
Council has set a survival
goal of 2% to 6% for anad-
romous fish runs from the
Snake and Columbia rivers.
At 2%, the runs replace
themselves. At an average of
4%, they grow.
But the smolt-to-adult
William Boyd Weir III
of Bend, OR
Charles Edward Alli-
son of La Pine, OR
May 26, 1935 - Feb 17,
2021
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March 25, 1947 - Feb 19,
2021
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of Prineville, OR
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2021
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Scientists call removing Snake River dams
‘necessary’ to restore salmon population
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“You need to respond to me,
you owe me 1500.00 for the
truck, then you can get the title,
if no response, I will file a com-
plaint with the small claims in
Deschutes County to get my
monies and turn you and your
family into INS for deportations,
your choice,” the text reads.
Cardona is a legal U.S. resi-
dent, Hummel said.
When interviewed by police,
Schlossmacher reportedly said
he “kinda felt” Cardona was in
the country illegally and had
wanted to scare him with the
text, Hummel said.
This week’s charge was en-
abled by a legislative change in
2016. The extortion statute was
amended that year to make it
unlawful to threaten to report
someone’s suspected immigra-
tion status to law enforcement
in order to compel them to do
something.
“We’ve come a long way in
Deschutes County toward be-
ing a fully welcoming commu-
nity, and we have much work
to do,” Hummel said in his
release. “Holding people ac-
countable who violate the law
based on their animus toward
others is a small and necessary
step in the process.”
Schlossmacher is sched-
uled to be arraigned March 18.
Schlossmacher did not imme-
diately return a phone message
seeking comment.
“That’s something that we are proud of,”
Whitelaw said. “People move here, they visit
here, because there’s a world-class museum.”
“The museum has been just really an in-
tegral part in the whole cultural experience
for Central Oregon. We’ve always really re-
spected the work that’s gone on there, and
were wanting to help increase that footprint,”
Deggendorfer said.
“It’s like every museum that would be at the
Smithsonian all gathered together in one place
to honor where we are and teach people about
where we live,” she said. “That’s what the High
Desert Museum does. It introduces all the new
people to who we are, what we do and the way
we honor everything that exists here.”
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return rate for wild Snake
River steelhead is 1.4%, below
replacement level, and for wild
spring and summer chinook,
it is just 0.7%.
The difference, they say, is
caused by the number of dams
and reservoirs each run en-
counters during juvenile mi-
gration to the ocean. For the
fish from the John Day River,
it’s three dams. At each of the
eight dams on the Snake River,
fish face hardships, includ-
ing delays caused by slowed
water velocity, predation, in-
jury and stress. The scientists
point to research that indicates
many of the young fish that
make it past each of the eight
dams succumb from delayed
mortality, the result of accu-
mulated stress and injuries in-
curred along the way.
“When all of the existing
credible scientific evidence is
taken into account, it is clear
that removing the four lower
Snake River dams, with ad-
equate spill at the remaining
lower Columbia River dams, is
necessary to restore Snake River
salmon populations,” they write.
The work they cite was
looked at during last year’s
Columbia River Systems Op-
eration Environmental Impact
Statement, authored by the
Army Corps of Engineers, Bu-
reau of Reclamation and Bon-
neville Power Administration.
The agencies chose a plan that
calls for water to be spilled at
each of the dams during the
juvenile migration period.