The Watershed Group will host our first virtual Watershed Group meeting and presentation on September 22nd from 6 - 8pm. Ben Clemens from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will present on: The Wondrous Lives of Pacific Lamprey - A Story of Complexity, Diversity, & Adaptability Pacific Lamprey is a descendant of an ancient group […]

Phil Simpson with the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife will present a Steelhead Production Monitoring Update for the Hood River Watershed. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Hood River Research Program monitors and evaluates actions taken by fisheries co-managers from ODFW and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs to improve wild production of […]

David L. Peterson (Emeritus Senior Scientist, U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station and Professor, University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences) & Jessica Halofksy (Director of Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center and National Wildfire Coordinating Group, U.S. Forest Service) will present on: Climate Change and Forest Ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest […]

Margi Hoffman, Director of Strategic Operations, and Raija Bushnell, Program Specialist with Farmer's Conservation Alliance, will present on: Irrigation Modernization in Hood River and Beyond Aging agricultural infrastructure, an expanding population, persistent droughts, and declining fish populations are stressing scarce water resources. Farmers in the western United States rely on irrigation to grow food, but […]

Salmon and Steelhead Resiliency to Disturbance and Implications for Watershed Restoration  Fire and other types of natural disturbance are often assumed to have negative effects on fish and aquatic ecosystems. However, in recent years a more dynamic perspective on aquatic ecosystems has emerged and studies have found that native salmonids are well adapted to disturbance. Gordon Reeves, […]

East Fork Hood River Habitat Enhancement Project In 2019 the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs sponsored a habitat restoration project on the lower East Fork Hood River along the Mills' property in Parkdale, OR. This project promotes floodplain and off-channel habitat connectivity by splitting flows through side channels to create more diverse habitat conditions. […]

Watershed 2040 - The Hood River Basin Partnership 20-Year Strategic Action Plan Healthy aquatic ecosystems provide fish habitat, irrigation water, and clean drinking water, as well as supporting recreation and other industries. Because native fish populations are central to the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems, they serve as ideal indicators of the overall health […]

Jordyn B. Miller, a hydrogeologist and PhD candidate at Purdue University, will share results from her research on how melting glaciers on Mt. Hood are impacting the mountain's aquifers. High alpine environments provide the hydrologic and biologic foundation for ecosystems and communities downstream. It's known that the vast majority of mountain glaciers across the globe […]