Deschutes Partnership News

• Apr 16, 2016 - Bend Bulletin - Deschutes Land Trust to acquire ranch near Sisters

  The Deschutes Land Trust has reached an agreement to purchase a 1,120-acre property along Whychus Creek northeast of Sisters.

• Apr 15, 2015 - Bend Bulletin - Trust buys more property on Whychus Creek

  Deschutes Land Trust took another step forward in its goal to protect wildlife habitat along Whychus Creek northeast of Sisters. The trust recently bought 58 acres of land, creating the new Aspen Hollow Preserve.

• Feb 03, 2015 - Bend Bulletin - Concrete dam gone, but Whychus work not over

  The last concrete dam blocking Whychus Creek is gone, but more work remains along the creek upstream of Sisters.

• Oct 10, 2014 - Bend Bulletin - Editorial: Invest in Central Oregon’s beauty

  Whychus Creek gushes out of the Cascades, passes through Sisters, gouges away at its magnificent canyon and then links with the Deschutes River.

• Oct 01, 2014 - Bend Bulletin - Land trust expands Whychus Canyon Preserve

  The Deschutes Land Trust has more than doubled the size of Whychus Canyon Preserve near Sisters and is now looking for financial help to further expand its holdings along Whychus Creek.

• Sep 24, 2014 - Bend Bulletin - Metolius Preserve is beautiful for the whole family

  According to its website, Deschutes Land Trust procured and began protecting the 1,240-acre preserve back in 2003. As my companions observed, the terrain — meadows with towering pines and lush outbursts of firs and other growth around the creek — was very different from other destinations we’d taken my in-laws to or they’d visited on their own this monthlong trip, including Sparks, Todd and Crater lakes, as well as Benham Falls.

• Jun 01, 2014 - Bend Bulletin - First phase of Whychus Creek restoration complete

  The first phase of a makeover for 1½ miles of Whychus Creek south of Sisters is complete.

• Jan 24, 2014 - Bend Bulletin - Diversion dam near Sisters set for removal

  It took five years of discussions, most done around a kitchen table at Pine Meadow Ranch, but the plan to remove a diversion dam on Whychus Creek south of Sisters is now complete.

• Oct 02, 2012 - Bend Bulletin - Whychus reroute restoring meadow

  SISTERS — Whychus Creek is growing into its new route through Camp Polk Meadow Preserve near Sisters — or should that be, the meadow is growing around the creek's new route?

• Feb 29, 2012 - Bend Bulletin - Sisters stream rerouted

  The project to restore and reroute the creek required more than a decade of development and involved the cooperation of several groups and agencies, including the Deschutes Land Trust, the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council and the U.S. Forest Service. In all, about $2 million in state, federal and private grants was spent on the project, said Ryan Houston, executive director of the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council.

• Nov 08, 2011 - Bend Bulletin - Big step for Sisters meadow

  For the second time in three years, heavy machinery is rumbling through a serene meadow northeast of Sisters for the sake of salmon and steelhead.