Summary: On October 31, 2022, the Washington Department of Enterprise Services (DES) released its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on Capitol Lake/Deschutes Estuary, identifying the removal of the Fifth Avenue […]
Your Pocket Guide to Restoring the Deschutes Estuary
Here are SIX reasons why the restoration of the Deschutes Estuary would benefit the community.
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 […]
Roundup of all the myths about “saving Capitol Lake”
Myth #1: Restoring the estuary would exposes stinky mudflats. Actually, the north basin of Capitol Lake would remain filled 80 percent of the time. If the estuary were restored, we wouldn’t […]
