MRGA Invited to Discovery Center Event April 22, 5:30-7:00PM (Copy)
Brad Dimock, Colorado River guide, river dory historian, dory builder, teacher, and owner-operator of Fretwater Boatworks in Flagstaff, AZ, will be a featured presenter at the McKenzie River Discovery Center’s Hatchery building on Saturday evening, April 22 from 5:30 to 7:00, including a reception from 5:00 to 5:30. His talk will tie into the evening’s theme, Spawning Grounds: It Started with this River and will be a show-and-tell of the links between the McKenzie, Rogue and Colorado dories, some of the histories therein, and generally enamor the audience with tales of connections, exploits and good humor.
MRGA Conservation Update
MRGA Comments on USACE 30-Year Plan
On February 17, MRGA submitted its comments to the Army Corps of Engineers
(USACE) on the Corp’s proposed Willamette Valley System 30-Year Plan. The Plan
is referred to by USACE as the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement (DPEIS) for the Willamette Valley System (WVS) Operations and
Maintenance. The WVS refers to the 13 dams and extensive bank protection
revetments along the Willamette River and its tributaries authorized by the Flood
Control Act of 1938. The DPEIS-WVS presented 7 project alternative strategies
and associated objectives including a preferred alternative (#5) which calls for
among many other things, eventual drawdown of Cougar Reservoir to the
diversion tunnel at 1,330’. This level would be 120’ lower than the 1,450-level
established by the USACE as the minimum pool level to prevent high turbiditylevels and high rates of sediment transport downstream as occurred in 2002-2004
during construction of the Cougar Dam Water Temperature Control Tower.
Summary of MRGA comments:
MRGA Invited to Discovery Center Event April 22, 5:30-7:00PM
Brad Dimock, Colorado River guide, river dory historian, dory builder, teacher, and owner-operator of Fretwater Boatworks in Flagstaff, AZ, will be a featured presenter at the McKenzie River Discovery Center’s Hatchery building on Saturday evening, April 22 from 5:30 to 7:00, including a reception from 5:00 to 5:30. His talk will tie into the evening’s theme, Spawning Grounds: It Started with this River and will be a show-and-tell of the links between the McKenzie, Rogue and Colorado dories, some of the histories therein, and generally enamor the audience with tales of connections, exploits and good humor.
ANNUAL MEETING JANUARY 8th, 2022 on Zoom
JANUARY 8, 2022
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Zoom meeting – digital only
Active Guides and Associate Members of the McKenzie River Guides Association will receive an email with materials for the annual meeting. The email will include the link for the Zoom meeting. The link will also be posted at the top of the meeting agenda.
Hazard Trees Removed
Hello Guides, some great news, the tree below Paradise was removed yesterday and the tree on the left side at Martins was removed this morning. Giustina Resourses did the upriver job and Sullutaaq did the work at Martins. Please thank our marine deputies Steve & Arik for making the arrangements.
STEVE SCHAEFERS