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The Warner Lakes are a chain of shallow lakes and marshes in the Warner Valley of eastern Lake County, Oregon, United States. The lakes extend the length of the valley, covering approximately . The lakes are named in honor of Captain William H. Warner, a topographical engineer who explored Warner Valley before being killed by Indians in 1849. The Warner Lakes and surrounding wetlands support a wide variety of birds and other wildlife. Much of the land surrounding the lakes is owned by the public and is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. These public lands provide recreational opportunities including hunting, fishing, bird watching, and camping. == Warner Valley == The Warner Valley is in south-central Oregon. It is approximately long and wide. Most of the valley is in Lake County, however the north end of the valley extends about into Harney County. It is an alluvial basin containing numerous lakes, remnants of a single great lake that covered the valley floor up to deep during the Pleistocene epoch. Today, steep cliffs rise above a chain of endorheic lakes and interconnected wetlands, known collectively as Warner Lakes. The valley has two regions commonly referred to as South Warner Valley and North Warner Valley. The two areas transition between Crump Lake and Hart Lake at a point where the valley narrows to about in width.〔Whistler, John T. and John H. Lewis, ("Location and General Conditions" ), ''Warner Valley and White River Projects'', United States Reclamation Service, United States Department of Interior in cooperation with the State of Oregon, Washington D.C., February 1916, pp. 16–19.〕〔("Warner Wetlands Area of Critical Environmental Concern" ) (PDF), Lakeview District, Bureau of Land Management, United States Department of Interior, Lakeview, Oregon, August 26, 2005.〕 Native Americans used the Warner Valley's lakes and wetland for thousands of years before the first white explorers arrived. There are scores of petroglyphs near the lake shores, some are estimated to be 12,000 years old. The Greaser Petroglyph Site, in the South Warner Valley, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.〔("Cultural Resources" ) (PDF), ''Summary of the Analysis of the Management Situation for the Lakeview Resource Area – Resource Management Plan'', Lakeview Field Office, Lakeview District, Bureau of Land Management, United State Department of Interior, Lakeview, Oregon, July 2000, pp. 2.28–29.〕〔("Greaser Petroglyph Site" ), National Register of Historic Places, ''www.nationalregisterofhistoricalplaces.com'', January 19, 2009.〕 In December 1843, Captain John C. Fremont led a party through the valley. Fremont and his party spent Christmas Day camped near Hart Lake. In honor of the date, Fremont named it Christmas Valley and the lake Christmas Lake. However, early mapmakers mistakenly plotted Christmas Valley northwest of the Warner Valley, leaving the valley and lake unnamed on early maps. In 1849, the valley was explored by Captain William Horace Warner, an Army topographical engineer. On September 26, 1849, Warner was ambushed and killed by Indians just south of the Warner Valley. In 1864, Lieutenant Colonel C. S. Drew of the 1st Oregon Cavalry visited the valley while on a scouting expedition. Drew named the valley in honor of Warner, who he believed had been killed there.〔McArthur, Lewis A. and Lewis L. McArthur, "Warner Valley", ''Oregon Geographic Names'' (Seventh Edition), Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland, Oregon, 2003, pp. 1010–1011.〕 In 1867, General George Crook decided to build a fort in the Warner Valley to prevent Indian raiding parties from passing through the area. To get his wagons across the wetlands, he directed a bridge to be built across a narrow, marshy channel between Hart Lake and Crump Lake. Forty soldiers of the 23rd Infantry Regiment under the command of Captain James Henton were assigned the task. The bridge was constructed between May 16, 1867, and July 24, 1867. Known as the Stone Bridge, it was actually a quarter mile long causeway constructed by hauling basalt boulders and smaller rocks from nearby Hart Mountain and dumping them into the marsh.〔"Stone Bridge and the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road", ''National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form'', National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, United States Department of Interior, Washington, D.C., August 13, 1974.〕〔McArthur, p. 916.〕〔Bach, Melva M., ("Camp Warner Moved to Honey Creek – 1867" ) (PDF), ''History of the Fremont National Forest'', Fremont National Forest, United States Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Lakeview, Oregon, 1981, p. 14.〕 Today, the Stone Bridge across the Warner wetlands still exists. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.〔〔〔("Stone Bridge and the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road" ), National Register of Historic Places, ''www.nationalregisterofhistoricalplaces.com'', September 24, 2009.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Warner Lakes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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