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Deschutes
The north fork of the Crooked River(Oregon State Archives)
In the dry landscape of Central Oregon, people and animals...
Community outreach and education activities provide an opportunity to connect local communities to specific watershed restoration issues and projects...
Chinook salmon (Onchorhynchus tshawytscha), also known as King salmon are the largest of the Pacific salmon and can grow to be over 100 pounds. These...
If you've been living in Deschutes County for more than a few years, you've undoubtedly witnessed the impacts of growth to our region -- some good,...
The Deschutes Basin is the second largest watershed in Oregon, covering more than 10,000 square miles. The Deschutes River is a major tributary of...
The Metolius River originates from a spring near Black Butte, Oregon and flows north and east to Lake Billy Chinook. As a river that has been...
Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) are the larger, ocean-going cousins of redband trout. This species has a speckled, dark-olive body with a silvery-...
The Deschutes Basin Bibliography was created to provide a resource for scholarly research to be used in tandem with the Deschutes Basin Explorer. The...
Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. -- Willy Ley
Whychus Creek, a tributary of the Deschutes River, is located near Sisters...
The word "uplands" is used to describe the higher-elevation areas between river and stream valleys. These areas tend to have drier soils than...
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