Join us on September 28th for our virtual Watershed Group presentation and meeting. Register HERE. Irrigation Pipeline Projects in the Hood River Watershed Niklas Christensen, an engineer with Watershed Professionals Network, will present on recently completed, ongoing, and future projects by local irrigation districts. These projects include Dee Irrigation District’s replacement of their open, non-pressurized […]

Join us on October 26th for our virtual Watershed Group presentation and meeting. Register HERE. Neal Creek Phase 1 Habitat Restoration Project Neal Creek is an important clearwater (non-glacial) tributary to the lower Hood River, which provides habitat for threatened winter steelhead, threatened coho salmon, cutthroat trout, and resident rainbow trout. Over the past 100 […]

This past summer's fish habitat project on the West Fork Hood River near Red Hill Creek improved a quarter-mile of the river and reconnected roughly one thousand feet of historic side channels to improve spawning and rearing habitat for threatened spring Chinook salmon and summer steelhead. Join Brian Bair, with the USFS Enterprise Program, and […]

Forest Collaboratives: Building Partnerships between the Community and Forest Service Forest collaboratives work to build partnerships and increase trust between the Forest Service and diverse stakeholder groups. Across the Pacific Northwest, forest collaboratives have developed agreements around shared goals and increased the pace, scale, and quality of watershed and forest restoration across public and private […]