The Rapid Decline of the Lower Deschutes River - TRAILER

Trailer for the Deschutes River Alliance's new documentary film, "The Rapid Decline of the Lower Deschutes River." The film describes the alarming ecological changes occurring in the lower Deschutes River, due to operations at the Pelton Round Butte Hydroelectric Complex. Look for the full film in February 2017!

[@cooking4times]

What is being done, or has been done to fix this problem? I hope something!

[@suedemutant8196]

Tear. It. Down!

[@WJGtracker2]

Sad how not just the Deschutes but many other great fishing waters in Oregon have become just a memory...

[@steveaustin16]

UPDATE?

[@jimknowles5483]

Any progress??

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

That damn had also killed the sockeye on deschutes

[@samsmom1491]

Shame on PG&E. I can't fathom how this has been allowed to continue.

[@garybrunecz7785]

Man is his own worst enemy and will destroy his own environment and kill everything in its path for financial gain and power...God must of been drunk when he created the human virus.

[@smokeythebirdbrain]

If you're looking for updates, here are recent blog posts about the subject - deschutesriveralliance.wordpress.com/ Looks like as of 2020, it's still a problem.

[@gerhardstrydom5249]

What a mess!
Google the Hartbeespoort Dam in South Africa to show what will happen if the nutrient issue is not controlled or resolved!

[@patrickroden8387]

Filter those nutrients into a farming operation to grow food, and the distribute as clean water.

[@nonewherelistens1906]

Temperature would still be an issue even if you did that.

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

Remove the damn

[@Kaputzcr]

this is not good... I'm only 15 and I want to fly fish this my whole life and have my kids fish this and their kids... no good.

[@sinfulxsociety]

Rip

[@frankblangeard8865]

Wild small mouth bass have replaced hatchery trout and hatchery salmon. Sounds like an improvement.

[@cheswick617]

They aren't wild...they've been illegally planted by bass fishermen. Hatchery Salmon & trout, much maligned by people with agenda's and no clue, still have wild fish DNA in them and are absolutely fine to restart Salmon and cutthroat runs.

[@WJV9]

Wrong, there are a lot of wild trout, steelhead and salmon migrating up the lower Deschutes. I have caught big red side wild rainbows around Mack's Canyon for years in the 80's and 90's.

[@powderbeast5598]

PG&E , unfortunate .

[@raybon7939]

What a tragedy Oregon can lead by forcing cities to have solar panels on there roof.