Oregon’s Deschutes Basin has a well-deserved reputation for people working together to resolve natural resource problems. It’s a compliment we take seriously because it requires hard work, commitment, and sometimes, compromise.
Month: September 2014
Removing the last concrete dam in Whychus Creek
Thirteen miles of upstream spawning and rearing habitat are now open to reintroduced Chinook salmon and steelhead as well as redband trout now that the last concrete dam on Whychus Creek has been removed. The…
What should be the future of Mirror Pond? Candidates for Bend City Council state their opinions
Editor’s note: The Bulletin editorial board asked the candidates running for three Bend City Council positions up for election in November two questions to help give voters a better idea of the differences among them.…
Diversion Dam Removal Above Lake Billy Chinook Opens More Habitat For Deschutes Salmon, Steelhead
Another of the many human-built obstacles to salmon and steelhead passage up and down central Oregon’s Whychus Creek is being removed this late summer with the deconstruction of an irrigation diversion dam just above the town of Sisters that has long helped wet Pine Meadow Ranch fields and pastures.
TNT not needed, Whychus dam now gone
Despite not being blasted with dynamite, the last concrete dam on Whychus Creek was demolished quickly this week south of Sisters.
Dam gets knocked down on Central Oregon stream
The $2 million project includes knocking down a 6-foot dam, with the expectation that will lead to restoration of a flood plain and 13 miles of fish habitat.
Whychus Creek dam removal clears way for fish return to Deschutes River system
Workers are tearing out the last of half a dozen concrete dams on a Central Oregon stream and its tributaries, erasing yet another barrier to the return of imperiled fish to the Deschutes River system.
Last concrete dam on Whychus Creek coming down
A pair of excavators put the first cracks in the last concrete dam on Whychus Creek on Monday, carrying out a plan built over five years of negotiations.
Whychus Creek Dam removal to require blasting
Brief area closure; Opens 13 miles of fish habitat; ceremony Monday SISTERS, Ore. – A temporary area closure will begin on Sunday afternoon and is expected to end on Monday evening on the Sisters Ranger…