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 […]
Draining Capitol Lake Basin
Have you had a chance to see our latest video? It shows the beauty of the drained Capitol Lake Basin, and gives us an idea of what the meandering Deschutes […]
DERT’s first Newsletter! Fall 2013: Volume 1, Issue 1
We have produced out very first newsletter: ‘Imagine the Estuary: Where the River Meets the Sea.’ We will be producing a newsletter every season, four times a year. In this […]
Video: The Power of a River
Produced by DERT Board member Helen Wheatley, this video illustrates just how powerful the Deschutes River can be with stormwater surges, and the problem Capitol Lake poses as sediments are […]
The history of the Deschutes River estuary, 1895 to 1948
How the Deschutes River estuary came to be dammed in the 1950s has been a heated topic locally the last few years. A history of the local efforts to dam […]
Goals Of DERT Take Decades Of Hard Work!
Removing a dam to restore an ecosystem is never exciting or glamorous. It’s always a hard-fought slog of paperwork, meetings and most of all asking the public for their support. […]
