| Date: July 13, 2002 |
| Location Marion Lake Fish Stocking |
| Where: Mt Jefferson Wilderness |
| This was a Chemeketan Hike, put together and lead by Larry Brown, to help pack fish in to Marion Lake. Each year the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Marion Forks Fish Hatchery stocks Marion Lake with trout by using volunteer backpackers. At the Marion Lake trailhead each of us were entrusted with a bucket of ice water and trout fry weighing 35 lbs to stuff in our pack and lug up the trail 2 ½ miles to Marion Lake. |
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| Chemeketans at the trailhead Our group of six joined forces with 36 other volunteers to pack in the buckets of fish. Each bucket contained 300 inch-long rainbow fry in plastic bags placed in ice water. (Do the math---that's 12,000 rainbow trout that will be legal sized fish to catch by next year!)
At the lake the plastic bags of trout fry were removed from the buckets and placed in the lake water to equalize the temperatures before releasing the trout into the lake.
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| Terry Jones from Marion Forks Fish Hatchery unloading buckets Jeanette Scott, Vice President, Director of Marketing for Cascade Ramblings, ever the publicity hound, some how managed to be interviewed by Henry Miller of the Statesman-Journal newspaper. |
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| Henry Miller interviewing Jeanette |
