NEWS RELEASE Discover Your Forest: 63095 Deschutes Market Road, Bend, OR 97701, discoveryourforest.org CONTACT: Rika Ayotte, Executive Director, 541-383-5572 For Release: As part of a region-wide beer naming effort honoring the Wild and Scenic Rivers…
Started by Avion and DRC in 2007, the Blue Water Program has protected over 10 billion gallons of water instream over the past 12 years (10.377 billion gallons = over 15,700 Olympic Pools). This is…
This year we are celebrating the completion of a 10-year water conservation project with Three Sisters Irrigation District (TSID) to pipe their main canal in Sisters, Oregon. Together with other water purchases over the past…
Things have been heating up in Bend and the summer tourist season seems to be in full swing. Last weekend, I decided to head up to Wickiup Reservoir to get away from the crowds and…
The Upper Deschutes River Basin Study, a 3-year study focused on meeting water needs in our basin, will be complete in September 2018. The study identifies water needs for rivers, agriculture and growing communities in…
If you’re like me, the transition to summer over the past month has been a welcome one! In Oregon, summer not only means longer, warmer days but also less wet stuff falling from the sky. …
May 12 event features four-course dinner, live music and opportunities to invest in a healthy Deschutes River Basin BEND, Ore. (April 26, 2018) – The Deschutes River Conservancy (DRC) will hold their largest annual fundraiser,…
If you are eager to see more water restored instream in Tumalo Creek, come learn about and support Tumalo Irrigation District’s (TID) efforts to modernize its water delivery system. TID’s long-term piping plan proposes to…
Even though the Willamette River Basin is extremely similar to the Deschutes River Basin in terms of size and geographic location, it has a much wetter climate. The differences in vegetation are pretty obvious even…