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Sustainable Sushi

It’s how they roll at Tomo, where a new owner is focused on eco-friendly seafood

Richard SittsSeptember 18, 2019January 1, 2025

Tucked away in a strip mall on the east side of Third Street, Tomo can be easy to miss. The unassuming sushi restaurant has been a locals’ under-the-radar favorite for years and recently underwent a change in ownership. Portland native Jeremy Letter took over July 1, buying the restaurant from longtime executive chef Emerson Jespersen […]

News

Improving Whychus Creek

Work aimed at improving fish spawning will include limiting human access to portions of the creek

Jaclyn BrandtOctober 1, 2018June 18, 2025

With growth around Central Oregon, wilderness areas tend to see an increase in traffic from humans. To reduce that human impact, the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council works to protect many of the waterways along the Deschutes River.    One of those projects is the Whychus Creek Management Plan, which UDWC has been working on for […]

Outside

Strange Job Title: Fish Watcher

Brian JenningsSeptember 28, 2016October 20, 2024

Lee Spencer has one of the most unusual job titles in Oregon—Fish Watcher. For the past 18 years Spencer has kept watch over thousands of returning summer steelhead in Steamboat Creek, a tributary of the upper Umpqua River System. Every May Spencer returns to his trailer headquarters along the banks of the Steamboat. He has […]

Outside

Fishing Backcountry Lakes

Enjoying the solitude and beauty of Central Oregon

Brian JenningsJune 1, 2016March 20, 2025

Though the general trout fishing season is well underway in Oregon, many of the High Cascade Lakes that sustain planted fish remain inaccessible due to snow and ice. It can be as late as mid-June or even early July before some of these lakes can be reached on foot or by horseback, but when the […]

Opinion

Letters 7/7-7/14

The Source StaffJuly 17, 2015October 14, 2024

IN REPLY TO “IN HOT WATER” (7/8) Hummm… The [Deschutes River Alliance] in their own analysis in various documents (and as Greg McMillan has said in various forums) has confirmed what [Portland General Electric] and [Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s] analysis has shown: by the time the water makes it’s way down the river […]

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