Kelsey, our Project Coordinator, spent a couple days collecting macroinvertebrates in McKay Creek before the McKay Creek Switch Project goes into construction.
Tag: McKay Creek Restoration
McKay Creek Water Rights Switch Summer 2018 Project Update
McKay Creek flows 37 miles from its headwaters in the Ochoco National Forest through private agricultural lands and joins the Crooked River just northwest of the City of Prineville in Crook County. Due in part…
Notes from the Field: Measuring Flows at McKay Creek
For the past three years the DRC has monitored streamflow on McKay Creek to develop a baseline before implementing its McKay Creek Water Rights Switch project. Developing a solid baseline now will allow the DRC…
Salmon and Steelhead Habitat to be Restored in McKay Creek
The McKay Water Rights Switch will restore natural flow to the middle reach of McKay Creek by allowing landowners in this reach to trade their private McKay Creek water rights for Ochoco Irrigation District (OID)…
Our focus reaches for 2017: Upper Deschutes, McKay Creek and Whychus Creek
McKay Creek Upper Deschutes River The Basin Study Work Group is a basin wide collaborative working to restore flows in critical reaches such as the Upper Deschutes for the past 2 years. This year, the group…