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Bouyed Up by Volunteers

An innocent-looking buoy with an important mission: tracking water in and under the high Cascades

For those of us who have been looking at the Three Sisters and what’s left of the year-round snow on the slopes, it’s pretty scary. Several of the historical snow fields are gone, melted by long periods of intense heat. Yes, there’s still plenty of water under the Three Sisters, but it’s being sucked out […]

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Safety Concerns Close Shooting Area

The McKenzie storage area west of Sisters in now closed to target shooting

The McKenzie storage area west of Sisters is now closed to target shooting Shooting enthusiasts in Sisters will have to find new digs, now that the Sisters Ranger District of the Deschutes National Forest closed the McKenzie storage area, a shooting area near the Crossroads subdivision off Forest Service Road 400. Officials from the Ranger […]

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