It was 2013 when Kim Brannock of Bend first witnessed thousands of dying fish in a side channel of the upper Deschutes River near Lava Island. As co-founder of the Coalition for the Deschutes, she was sickened by the sight, only to find out it had been occurring for decades with seasonal irrigation water flows […]
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Fish Rescue
Every October, a group dons their waders to rescue fish around Lava Island. Thousands live. Thousands also die.