Please join us on March 3rd, from 6 to 8 PM, to learn about the impacts of dams on waterways, habitat, wildlife, and human communities.William Thoms and Dan Penn, staff […]
Total Maximum Daily Loads for the Deschutes River and its Tributaries
Technical Review and Comments: Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for the Deschutes River and its Tributaries – Sediment, Bacteria, Dissolved Oxygen, pH, and Temperature ( July 31, 2020) We have […]
Puget Sound Nutrients General Permit Proposed by Ecology
June 29, 2020 by Dave Peeler Way back in the mid to late 1980s, the WA Dept. of Ecology (Ecology) took a bold step: it proposed and then adopted a […]
What happens if we don’t restore the Deschutes River Estuary?
What happens if we don’t restore the Deschutes River Estuary? In last week’s blog post on the Top 10 Personal Reasons to Restore the Deschutes River Estuary we talked about […]
Milne’s thesis falls apart under review
Over the past few weeks, Dr. David Milne has been rolling out an interesting thesis that Capitol Lake is actually a benefit to the local environment. I don’t want to […]
Sure, Capitol Lake is good… if you ignore the carbon
There will likely be a lot of talk about the work of Dr. David Milne about water quality and the Deschutes Estuary. You can read Milne’s entire work here, but […]