Deschutes County

Last week, the Oregon Department of Agriculture confirmed another case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.  This case involved a Deschutes County back yard flock, resulting in 40 chickens and ducks being euthanized.  State Veterinarian Dr. Ryan Sch...

On Wednesday, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced the designation of a new Area Of Known Wolf Activity in the central part of the state.  The new AKWA includes the Upper Deschutes wildlife management unit in Klamath and Deschutes Counties. ...

Oregon Governor Kate Brown issued drought declarations for four counties, Monday afternoon. Citing low snowpack, low reservoir levels and low streamflows, Brown declared drought emergencies in Deschutes, Lake, Malheur and Grant counties. She said forecasted water supply conditions and precipitation levels are not expected to improve, with drought likely to have a significant economic impact on fa

Oregon FFA will do something next week that hasn’t been done in over two years. The Blue and Gold will hold an in-person event. And the event, is the state convention in Redmond. “Not only have we not had a convention in the past two years, we haven’t had in general in person events, and for one of our first back in person events to be the state convention that’s awesome for everyone," said

The snowpack is very thin across Oregon. In fact, the numbers are so low that Scott Oviatt with NRCS-Oregon calls it concerning. At this point, the only region Oviatt said is not concerning is the northern Cascades area, including the Willamette and the Hood, Sandy-Lower Deschutes basins, which are both well above average for this time of year ...

The Deschutes Soil and Water Conservation District was recently awarded two grants to help the Central Oregon farming community. DSWCD was one of 20 conservation districts nationwide to be awarded an Urban Agriculture Conservation Grant ...

With temperatures warming up across the region, six irrigation field days will take place across Central Oregon. Each will start at 9 a.m. and run through most of the day. According to Oregon State Extension officials, the main focus will be the virtues of converting to LESA/LEPA/MDI system pivots and linears, along with other irrigation technologies, to help increase water use efficiency, and r