Tag: Clackamas River

Deadline to Support for Flow Protections for North Willamette is Today at 5 p.m.

Sept. 26, 2024 We need your help TODAY to support new legal protections for instream flows for fish in Oregon’s beloved Willamette River system! Comments are due today at 5 p.m., so please TAKE ACTION NOW. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has applied for 269 new instream water rights, including 102 in the […]

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Instream: Summertime River Hikes

July 6, 2024 By John DeVoe with Tommy Hough Wenaha River Tim Palmer’s Field Guide to Oregon Rivers calls the Wenaha “one of the Northwest’s wildest streams … with no roads, dams, development or diversions.” He should know. A few years ago, Tim and a couple of friends hiked up the Wenaha from the lower

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Is Lake Oswego Too Thirsty for the Clackamas to Handle?

By Sara Roth with Keely Chalmers | Aug. 4, 2015 | KGW News Lake Oswego wants the ability to take another 22 million gallons a day from the Clackamas River. Conservationists fear fish won’t survive. The Portland metro area may be protected from the drought that’s encompassing the majority of Oregon, but in the Clackamas

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Stream of Consciousness: Drought, Deconstructed

By John DeVoe | June 15, 2015 | Instream For many Oregonians, drought once existed as an abstraction, something that happened elsewhere, far away. No longer. This summer, Oregon’s rivers are suffering some of the lowest streamflows and highest water temperatures in our recorded history. These conditions are triggering tragic kills of salmon, steelhead, trout,

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