Memories of Running Free Like the Wind
At Pine Meadow Ranch, a working ranch in Sisters, Oregon I studied old water rights maps, learned about the dams and irrigation diversions, and spoke with scientists and restoration organizers. Each of these stories contained elements of division, fragmentation, and sectioning: Water rights maps divide the water conceptually into grids, dams physically segment and fragment the creek and its flow, and scientists and conservationists segment and isolate sections for manageable research and restoration.
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