Rocks and logs appeared in stretches of the Upper Deschutes River, and Mirror Pond started looking more like a mud flat, as water managers have dialed down the flow of the river for the winter.
In the Media
October 6, 2010 – The Source Weekly – Vote Yes on Measure 76:
What have you done for your local parks, rivers and wildlife recently? Not much opportunity to help? Here’s a perfect chance for you to do something truly meaningful for these things we all cherish. In November, you can vote “yes” on Measure 76.
November 18, 2010 – Bend Bulletin – Groundwater option deserves serious study
Bend’s councilors were in a great hurry several years ago when they launched the city’s public transit system. Taxpayers had said on multiple occasions that they didn’t want it, but councilors knew what was best and, besides, had tired of public debate. So they took the plunge.
October 26, 2010 – Sisters Nugget – Salmon Watch on the Metolius
These are heady times for anyone interested in saving water and bringing back salmon fisheries to the streams and rivers of the Northwest. In Central Oregon their are so many water conservation groups they might step all over each other; but the best part is, they're coordinated, and instead of competing, it's like a beautiful dance, and the winners are salmon and us.
November 12, 2010 – Bend Bulletin – Bend Mulls purification options for city's water
City of Bend water customers should soon get a glimpse of how much their monthly bills will increase over the next several years as a result of a planned $73 million upgrade to the Bridge Creek water system.
November 21, 2010 – Bend Bulletin – Meadow plan draws residents’ opposition
The U.S. Forest Service is drafting a plan to flood Ryan Ranch Meadow along the Deschutes River Trail in order to create a wetland habitat similar to what the site was historically. But a group of residents is criticizing the plan, expressing concerns that the project would draw in more mosquitoes, damage elk habitat and result in an area that doesn’t work as a wetland should.
November 18, 2010 – Bend Bulletin – Steelhead Film Night tonight
Brian O'Keefe and Todd Moen of Catch Magazine will present Steelhead Film Night, an evening of fly-fishing films and photos from around the globe, tonight at McMenamins Old St. Francis School, located at 700 N.W. Bond St., in downtown Bend.
November 16, 2010 – Sisters Nugget – Stimulus dollars at work in Sisters
The slow trickle-down effect of "stimulus" funds has finally brought American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars to Sisters. And along with the money came a few forest jobs that politicians were hyping during the past mid-term elections.
November 20, 2010 – The Oregonian – Oregon companies find growth in restoring forests
As workers with J & S Trucking reconstructed a section of Whychus Creek this fall, placing logs in the banks and boulders in the creek bed to create fish habitat, the work was a far cry from what the company was doing a decade ago.