In the shadow of Mount Hood, Baldwin Creek is about to start running like it hasn’t done in decades
November 21, 2024. “We as humans have done a pretty good job of altering our rivers and streams over time to suit our needs,” says Alix Danielsen, restoration manager for the Hood River Watershed Group in Hood River, Ore., referring to everything from farms and orchards to houses and 7-Elevens. “All of those have a degrading effect on our rivers and streams.”
Danielsen is at the forefront of an effort to reverse at least some of those degrading effects.
She’s spearheading a team in Hood River County that’s rehabilitating a section of a once-thriving salmon stream known as Baldwin Creek. In addition to cost, the project was challenging to get off the ground because the waterway runs through property owned by at least five different landowners.
Columbia Insight producer Deborah Bloom was on hand in September to check out a project milestone, talk to some of the central figures and file the video report above.
The Baldwin Creek restoration is an enormous project, but it’s just one of many habitat renewal efforts being undertaken by dedicated teams every day of the year around the Pacific Northwest.
Columbia Insight’s reporting on environmental issues in Oregon’s Hood River Valley is supported by the Jubitz Family Foundation.
Columbia Insight’s reporting on environmental issues in Oregon’s Hood River Valley is supported by the Jubitz Family Foundation.
