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John Day River, Oregon, and LePage Park.
Image taken September 26, 2003.
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LePage Park ...
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LePage Park, Oregon, is located on the left bank of the John Day River at the confluence of the John Day and the Columbia, at Columbia River Mile (RM) 218.
Two miles downstream is the John Day Dam and four miles downstream is the community of Rufus.
LaPage Park is owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
LaPage Park is named after Corps of Discovery member Jean Baptiste Lepage,
a French trapper who joined the Lewis and Clark expedition at the Mandan villages.
Lewis and Clark called the John Day River the "River La Page".
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John Day River, Oregon, looking upstream.
John Day River, looking upstream, as seen from LaPage Park, Oregon.
Image taken September 26, 2003.
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- LePage Park Treaty Fishing Access Site ...
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LePage Park Treaty Fishing Access Site, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission ...
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All four Columbia River treaty tribes enjoy fishing rights along the Columbia from the Bonneville to McNary dams. This 147-mile stretch of the river is called Zone 6.
The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) operates and maintains 31 fishing sites (2015, Note: the website map only shows 30 sites) in Zone 6. These sites were set aside by Congress to provide fishing locations to Indian fishers whose traditional fishing grounds were inundated behind dams.
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"For fisheries management purposes, the 292-mile stretch of the Columbia River that creates the border between Washington and Oregon is divided into six zones. Zones 1-5 are between the mouth of the river and Bonneville Dam, a distance of 145 miles. Oregon and Washington manage the commercial fisheries that occur in these zones. Zone 6 is an exclusive treaty Indian commercial fishing area. This exclusion is for commercial fishing only. Non-commercial sports fishers may still fish in this stretch of the river."
[Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission website, 2016]
The Zone 6 sites include
19 Treaty Fishing Access sites
(Bonneville,
Wyeth,
White Salmon,
Stanley Rock,
Lyle,
Dallesport,
Celilo,
Maryhill,
Rufus,
Preacher's Eddy,
North Shore,
LePage Park,
Pasture Point,
Roosevelt Park,
Pine Creek,
Threemile Canyon,
Alderdale,
Crow Butte,
and Faler Road),
five "In-lieu" sites
(Cascade Locks,
Wind River,
Cooks,
Underwood, and
Lone Pine),
two "Shared-use" sites
(Avery and
Sundale Park, for both Tribal use and Public use),
and four "Unimproved" sites with no services
(Goodnoe,
Rock Creek,
Moonay,
and
Aldercreek).
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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