The Upper Deschutes Watershed Council
The Upper Deschutes Watershed Council seeks to protect and restore the upper Deschutes River watershed through collaborative projects in watershed stewardship, habitat restoration and community awareness.
Since 1996, the Upper Deschutes Watershed
Council (UDWC) has worked to protect and restore the
2,000,000-acre upper Deschutes River watershed through
collaborative projects in watershed restoration, monitoring and
community awareness. With local support from landowners,
ranchers, environmental interests, local citizens, and
representatives from local governments and agencies, the UDWC
leads cooperative, grass-roots efforts to improve watershed
conditions. This grass-roots approach ensures that a
balance of affected and interested stakeholders is involved to
craft effective management strategies for our
watersheds.
Over the next five to ten years, the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council is focusing the majority of its habitat restoration efforts in the Whychus and Metolius River watersheds to help support the reintroduction of salmon and steelhead that is beginning in 2008. The habitat restoration projects implemented by the Watershed Council complement the efforts of other conservation partners such as the Deschutes Basin Land Trust, Deschutes River Conservancy, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation. Click here to download a comprehensive overview of this restoration effort.
For more information, please visit www.restorethedeschutes.org.
To donate to the UDWC, click here.
