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The Hood River Watershed Group’s purpose is to sustain and improve the Hood River Watershed through education, cooperation, and stewardship.

10/22/2026

We are one week away from our Annual Celebration at The Ruins! We are highlighting our 30th anniversary celebration by featuring a video from 30 years ago… unseen footage from the flood of 1996 on the Hood River. Here is a sneak peek of what you’ll see at the event. Link to buy tickets in our bio, snag one before we sell out! We look forward to seeing you there.

10/08/2026

Tickets are on sale now for our 2026 Annual Celebration at The Ruins on Thursday, Oct 29th!

Join us for a fantastic evening with catering by Boda's Kitchen, a live auction hosted by Ryland Moore, a silent auction, and a raffle! Click the link in our bio to buy tickets before they sell out!

09/25/2026

It is spawning season! This is the time of year when we help the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs staff conduct spawning ground surveys on specific reaches of the Hood River to assess population estimates (returning adult spring Chinook), effectiveness of habitat restoration projects, and monitor the success of Spring Chinook reintroduction efforts.

We take scale and genetic samples (fin clippings) from carcasses, count redds (gravel nests), and observe live fish. These efforts help the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs understand Spring Chinook populations and support long-term fisheries and habitat management in the Hood River Basin

These videos are taken on McGee Creek and Bear Creek, both tributaries of the Hood River.

09/11/2026

Thank you Parkdale Hatchery staff for hosting our first public presentation following our project season! We want to thank everyone who RSVP’d and attended, it was a great turnout. Also a special thank you to the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs staff as well. Stay tuned for more!

09/04/2026

Thank you to our trusted volunteers once again to help water some of our native plants at Baldwin Creek this week. It was an extra bit of insurance on top of the much needed rain we received. Hope everyone has a good Labor Day weekend!

P.S. Last slide I promise I’m actually doing some watering, not playing with the hose 🫡

08/25/2026

Join us on Tuesday, September 8th at 5:30pm at the Parkdale Fish Hatchery for a guided tour presented by the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs staff.

Learn about the operations of the hatchery and the objectives of the Tribes’ Hood River spring Chinook reintroduction program.

Tour starts at 5:30 pm!

Parkdale Fish Hatchery is located:
5620 Red Hill Drive, Mount Hood, OR 97401

Please RSVP to Dani by emailing [email protected]

Hope to see you there!

08/20/2026

Last week we were grateful to have help from The Next Door Summer Youth Work Crew once again to mulch hundreds of plants along the Lower East Fork Phase 2 site. Thank you to The Next Door and the Forest Service for their hard work, we couldn’t have done it without you!

08/13/2026

Our Restoration Project Manager, Javan Bailey, goes into detail about the log jam construction on the River Mile 3 project on the Hood River. These log jam structures will divert some of the flow into our new side channel. This new side channel will provide juvenile rearing habitat, where they can rest and grow safely outside of the fast main-river current, as well as provide adult spawning habitat, especially for salmon and steelhead in winter.

08/05/2026

Matt Steinwurtzel, Fisheries Biologist and Restoration Project Manager for the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs, goes into detail about the fish salvage for the current Rivermile 3 Project on the Hood River.

07/31/2026

Huge thank you to the high school kids working at The Next Door Inc Summer Youth Work Program! They helped us water hundreds of plants along the Lower East Fork Hood River project site.

When Bernadette was coordinating this volunteer watering event, we initially only had a few takers at first, but then we miraculously collaborated with the USFS Natural Resources Manager, Rashawn Tama, who assists with coordinating outdoor work for the Next Door Summer Youth Crew.

Long story short, three volunteers turned into almost 20 overnight. We couldn’t be more grateful for these kids who worked hard to get our young native plants watered.

These native plants, which were planted by bare root in March, will eventually grow to provide shade for the river, which in turn creates cooler water temperatures that the native fish love.

Thank you again to the NextDoor Summer Youth Crew, we look forward to working with you soon!

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Hood River, OR

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http://www.hoodriverwatershed.org/

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