You are probably aware of the Deschutes Land Trusts’ Ochoco Preserve. It is a restoration project where Ochoco and McKay creeks meet the Crooked River. Flows in this section of the Crooked River are higher than below Bowman Dam during non-irrigation season due to tributary inflows. Here are some photos from DLT restoration specialist Jason Grant that he took yesterday when flows at the site were over 3,400 cfs. If you have visited the preserve you know that this is not how it normally looks. The good news is that the river can spread out at the preserve and do what rivers are supposed to do at high flows. Hopefully spawning steelhead have found their way to this project and even gone up McKay Creek.