The TU’s Deschutes Chapter and Home Rivers Initiative with a great diversity of partners are pleased to share the following areas for project work and volunteer opportunities to help restore the Upper Deschutes River Basin. Together we are strategically working to increase stewardship efforts for our streams and landscapes to meet the needs for our communities and for the diversity and health of our fish. If you would like to join the DROP program and become a Steward, these areas are close to Prineville and the Sisters area where there outstanding projects to support being planned and implemented to accomplish the overall reintroduction strategy for the Deschutes Basin. Come join us.

Deschutes Reintroduction Area Projects for the Deschutes Restoration Outreach Program:

Riparian Planting and Restoration Work along the Crooked River below Bowman Dam


Plan: 2 acres of non-native invasive plant removal and planting effort in the fall of 2010 and spring of 2011. The project site is around the Wild and Scenic section of the Crooked River below Bowman Dam. We will need a support crew to work with middle and high school students to implement the vegetation project.

Partners: BLM, Crooked River Watershed Council, ODFW, Wolftree and Middle and High Schools in Crook County.
 

Schedule: Fall planting dates and non-native removal will be shared in the summer of 2010. Spring dates announced in the winter of 2010.
 

Training opportunities: Riparian species ID, planting techniques, monitoring plant diversity and health.

Contact Information: Reach Darek Staab for information until fall dates are released

Map of the area: Below is a map of the area, or you can click here to view it directly in Google Maps.

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