Wildfire is a natural ecological process, but decades of fire suppression along with changes in land use and climate have increased wildfire risk in...
The Deschutes River is world famous for its trout fisheries including native populations of Columbia River redband trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss ssp.),...
Habitat is the place where a plant or animal species naturally lives and grows. A description of habitat includes characteristics of the soil, water...
The landscape of the Deschutes Basin include a wide variety of habitats for fish and wildlife. The Deschutes River supports healthy salmon, steelhead...
The human population the Deschutes Basin is growing, particularly in its upper watershed. In the 1990s Deschutes County was at the epicenter of this...