The Bulletin had a good article with an update on the decade long discussion of providing fish passage at the PacfiCorp owned dam that creates Mirror Pond. Funding has been secured to design something that mimics a natural passageway but construction has not been approved and funding would need to be raised. An engineering design is a welcome step forward but there’s still a long way to go and some important questions that need to be answered. For instance, the current thought is to provide safe upstream passage only. Of course, safe downstream passage is also needed to allow for the natural migration of resident fish. Nevertheless, this could be good news for the Middle Deschutes.