Life and Death in the Klamath Basin
by Mary Van
Water defines Oregon. Water is life for an antelope in the Alvord desert; water is death for the unwary crossing the Columbia bar. Water carved the gorge. The majority of Oregonians live on the “wet side” but water runs through the east side as well. It is there, in the Klamath Marsh, that Wendell and Kathy Wood led a motley group of visitors in their kayaks and canoes. The Wood’s give of their time, money, and home to offer total strangers a chance to fall in love with the wild left in Oregon.