Middle Deschutes

Photo: Richard Scott Nelson

Monitoring in the Middle Deschutes River

The Middle Deschutes River between the City of Bend and Lake Billy Chinook and Tumalo Creek have been the focus of intensive streamflow restoration efforts over the past 20 years. Alongside streamflow restoration efforts, UDWC and partners have monitored temperature in the Middle Deschutes since 2001 to evaluate status and trends and how stream temperature changes with increases in flow. Temperature and other water quality data are available here.

In early 2012, we launched a partnership with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) to evaluate the status of fish populations in the Middle Deschutes River. Fisheries monitoring was designed to develop baseline information on native redband and introduced brown trout and their use of habitat in relation to stream temperature.

• Upper Deschutes Subbasin Assessment
• Upper Deschutes Subbasin Action Plan

For any questions regarding our monitoring work, please contact Monitoring Program Manager Lauren Mork.

Contact Lauren Mork

Technical Monitoring Reports

Temperature Monitoring

• 2020-2021 Instream Flow Restoration and Temperature Responses in the Middle Deschutes River
• 2018-2019 Instream Flow Restoration and Temperature Responses in the Middle Deschutes River
• 2017 Instream Flow Restoration and Temperature Responses in the Middle Deschutes River
• 2016 Instream Flow Restoration and Temperature Responses in the Middle Deschutes River
• 2015 Instream Flow Restoration and Temperature Responses in the Middle Deschutes River
• 2014 Instream Flow Restoration and Temperature Responses in the Middle Deschutes River
• 2013 Instream Flow Restoration and Temperature Responses in the Middle Deschutes River
• 2012 Instream Flow Restoration and Temperature Responses in the Middle Deschutes River
• 2011 Instream Flow Restoration and Temperature Responses in the Middle Deschutes River
• 2010 Instream Flow Restoration and Temperature Responses in the Middle Deschutes River

ODFW Fisheries Monitoring

• Describing Fine-Scale Patterns of Genetic Structure and Introgression of Redband Trout in a Complex River System (Bohling et al 2019)
• Evaluation of genetic population structure and effective population size among populations of redband trout in the Deschutes River, OR
• 2015 Deschutes River Fisheries Monitoring Report
• 2012-2014 Deschutes Redband Trout Sampling Design and Status
• 2013-Middle Deschutes Fisheries Monitoring Report: Redband Trout Movement in the Middle Deschutes River
• 2013-Middle Deschutes Fisheries Monitoring Report: Fish Distribution and Abundance in the Middle Deschutes River
• 2012-Middle Deschutes Fisheries Monitoring Report: Fish Distribution and Abundance in the Middle Deschutes River