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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.

06/16/2026

Bernadette doing more pebble counts on the Neal Creek Phase 2 site! When selecting and measuring 100+ stones at random, it can assist with classifying habitat diversity and spawning potential.

06/11/2026

Before kicking off project season, Bernadette and Javan are monitoring a past project site: Neal Creek Phase 1. Habitat monitoring is essential in river restoration work to see what progress is being made, and provides information on the types of restoration that can best achieve project goals, in this case, feasible aquatic habitat.

In the video, Bernadette is performing a stream pebble count survey, which is a hydrology/geomorphology field technique to measure size distribution of substrate on a riverbed or stream.

By selecting and measuring 100+ stones at random, it can help classify and evaluate water flow.

Swipe thru to see Bernadette using a rangefinder, another monitoring tool used for measuring habitat unit (e.g. pool) length- and Javan, holding a staff gauge to measure water depth.

06/02/2026

Thank you to our volunteers who mulched more plants at the Lower East Fork Phase 2 site! Mulching these plants helps keep the weeds at bay while retaining soil moisture for these hot summer months- with the overall goal of having these plants provide shade and biodiversity for our streams.

05/27/2026

Thank you to Steve Pappas for the talk on the Eastside Lateral Pipeline completion ! This was our final public presentation for the season. Now, we hit the ground running with our summer restoration project on the Hood River. Stay tuned for our public presentations in the fall.

05/20/2026

Bernadette and Javan were out on Eliot Branch installing temperature loggers that will monitor the stream temperature all summer long. These temperature loggers take the temperature of the water once every hour.

Why do we do this? We collect water temperature data to help us better understand stream conditions for native fish species.

Swipe to see Bernadette, Javan, and Riffle 🐾 along Eliot Branch.

05/18/2026

Join us on Tuesday, May 26th from 6-7 pm at Working Hands Fermentation for a talk on the completion of the Eastside Lateral Pipeline project presented by East Fork Irrigation District Manager, Steve Pappas.

Doors open at 5:30, for those who would like to grab a beverage and socialize, and the presentation will run from 6-7.

Learn how this irrigation modernization project increases irrigation reliability and keeps water instream for endangered salmon and steelhead.

Hope to see you there!

05/12/2026

eDNA sampling field day! Bernadette, our field tech at HRWG is working with Angie at the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs to determine what types of fish are migrating along the West Fork of the Hood River.

04/17/2026

HRWG Public Presentation: “Beaver Power” Talk

Please join us Tuesday, April 28th at The Ruins for a series of presentations on beaver that will feature beaver ecology, monitoring for beaver presence and habitat restoration potential, and projects to restore beaver populations and their habitat.

Our speakers include Jeanette Burkhardt with Yakama Nation Fisheries, Meg Waller (BARK), and Andrew Meyers (ODFW).

Doors will open at 5:30, for those who would like to grab a beverage and socialize, and the presentation will run from 6:00 to 7:30.

Questions? Email [email protected]

The Ruins: 13 Railroad Street, Hood River

03/23/2026

Please join us Tuesday, March 31st at Working Hands Fermentation (1021 12th St, Hood River) for a talk with ODFW Fish Biologist, Lindsay Powell.

Doors will open at 5:30, for those who would like to grab a beverage and socialize, and the presentation will run from 6:00-7:00.

Lindsay will talk about Hood River salmon and steelhead populations, including results from last summer on juvenile steelhead in the East Fork Hood River, the number of juvenile Hood River steelhead migrating to the ocean, and numbers of spring Chinook adults in the West Fork Hood River. This information will help evaluate long-term effects of habitat restoration and water conservation in the watershed.

Hope to see you there!

02/18/2026

Please join us Tuesday, February 24th at Working Hands Fermentation (1021 12th St, Hood River) for a joint talk with US Forest Service fish biologist, Kathryn Arendt, and HRWG volunteer, Dave Bookman. Doors will open at 5:30, for those who would like to grab a beverage and socialize, and the presentation will run from 6:00-7:00.

The Watershed Group will share results from a recently completed forest road inventory that identified Forest Service road segments that pose risks to watershed health. In addition, the Forest Service will share highlights of fish passage projects from the past 20 years, including the recently completed Bear Creek Fish Passage Project.

Hope to see you there!

Address

1021 12th St
Hood River, OR

Website

http://www.hoodriverwatershed.org/

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