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Deschutes Diaries | Chapter 3: A Closer Look At Coho Salmon in the Deschutes River (Pt. I)
Deschutes Diaries, Chapter 3Taking A Closer Look: Deschutes Coho Salmon, Part IOctober 2025Welcome back to the Deschutes Diaries! In this series, we delve into the dynamics of the Deschutes River,...
Daniel Ritz
Temperature and Fish Growth in the Deschutes
Since the Selective Water Withdrawal tower went into operation at Round Butte Dam on the Deschutes, spring water temperatures in the lower river are warmer than they were previously. The increase...
Deschutes Diaries: December 2024 - Bet On Wild
Deschutes Diaries - Bet On WildExploring Steelhead Trends and Angler Impacts on the Lower DeschutesDecember 2024Welcome back to the Deschutes Diaries! In this series, we delve into the dynamics of...
Bugging Out on the Lower Deschutes
This fall, Native Fish Society partnered with The Salmonfly Project for a 10-day field campaign on the lower Deschutes River, gathering critical data on aquatic insect populations. The study...
Deschutes Diaries: October 2024
Welcome to the start of our new series, Deschutes Diaries, exploring the history, developments, and future of the lower Deschutes! Through these articles, we’ll take a closer look at the events...
Happy World Fish Migration Day!
As we celebrate World Fish Migration Day on May 25th, 2024, Native Fish Society is proud to highlight our ongoing efforts to revive wild native fish populations, free-flowing rivers, and thriving...
Victory: Trout Creek & Crooked River pH Standards Remain Protective
Thanks to comments submitted by Native Fish Society members, volunteers, staff, and our partner organizations, the staff of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) have decided to not...
Summarizing the Lower Deschutes Stakeholder Process
For the past year, Native Fish Society has been a convening member of a stakeholder group that has examined water temperatures in the lower Deschutes River. One of the goals of this group was to...
Oregon DEQ Aquatic Life Rulemaking and the Deschutes
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has recently released their proposed changes to the Fish and Aquatic Life Uses of Oregon's waterbodies. Some systems will be getting more...
Outlook for Deschutes & John Day Summer Steelhead
On April 18, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) hosted a webinar (watch the recording here) to inform the angling public of the outlook for this year's run of Columbia basin...
Deschutes Update: Boots on the Ground
"I've got about four sites I want to get planted, so let's get going." With that, Matt Mendes, NFS River Steward for the Warm Springs River, rounded us up and got us going on...
Columbia Steelhead in Crisis: Leadership & Loss on the Deschutes
NFS River Steward Jeff Hickman, the owner and head guide of Fish the Swing, a highly respected fly fishing outfitter based in Oregon, recently announced that he is canceling his entire season of...
Bring on the Goats! A Small Part of the Larger Picture
It was the middle of May on the Deschutes, the time of year when the salmonflies are prolific and unavoidable. Tom Derry, Liz Perkin, and I were walking up the tracks to Tommy’s secret fishing...
Tracy Buckner
A Season of Stewardship on the Deschutes
River Steward Stories: Matt Mendes, Warm Springs & Lower Deschutes Rivers“Sometimes, we would just put the truck in first gear and walk alongside throwing empties in the bed,” explained Matt...
Tom Derry
In Depth on the Deschutes - Part II: What now?
In the first part of our series, In Depth on the Deschutes, we explored the issues impacting the river and its fish today. In the second part of our series, we take a look at the goals Native Fish...
In Depth on the Deschutes—Part 1: Where We’re At
The Native Fish Society and its Lower Deschutes River Stewards get a lot of questions about what's going on with the Pelton Round Butte fish passage project. Some people are pretty...
Mark Sherwood
