Talk:Deschutes River

mid-1800s military expedition?
This question came up during Wikipedia Oregon's appearance on OPB's Talk Out Loud show: http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/encyclopedic-ambitions/

Anybody got any ideas?


 * On the Deschutes River there is what looks to be a hand made sign on the trail on the east bank of the river north of hwy 26 and Warm Springs. The sign explains that at that spot a military expedition was camped in the mid 1800s and a slave who was with the outfit was killed in a brawl with one of the soldiers. I have always wanted to know more about this story and how the sign came to be. choo — Fri May 8th 9:14a.m.

--Esprqii (talk) 16:28, 8 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Could it have been the Meek Cutoff expedition? or whatever party blazed the Santiam Wagon Road? This would be a fun one to research; many of the books linked at our Research Desk page may be helpful. -Pete (talk) 19:42, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Recent Conservation, Water Banking and increased Instream Flows
The Deschutes is considered a success story in terms of collaborative water management that has led recently to significant increases in summertime instream flows. It seems a section or two should be added to summarize these accomplishments. Perhaps information from the Deschutes River Conservancy could be included? http://www.deschutesriver.org/ I am not an expert, just noted the lack of discussion. (Robertopennington (talk) 21:42, 14 October 2015 (UTC))

Requested move 15 July 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Skarmory   (talk •   contribs)  07:43, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

– Proposing that the River in Oregon, a major tributary of the Columbia River flowing though the largest city in Eastern Oregon (Bend) is the primary topic. It significantly exceeds Deschutes River (Washington) in length, discharge, and page views, consistent with enwiki having but a stub for the Washington river. As for Little Deschutes River, this seems to carry the "(Oregon)" qualifier only due to a misguided attempt at consistency; there is no other Little Deschutes River on enwiki to disambiguate, and having the base name redirect there is WP:MISPLACED and should be moved to the unqualified title. Mdewman6 (talk) 22:59, 15 July 2023 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Deschutes River (Oregon) → Deschutes River
 * Deschutes River → Deschutes River (disambiguation)
 * Little Deschutes River (Oregon) → Little Deschutes River
 * Strong support as proposed - as a native of WA, even I recognize that the Oregon river is the more noteworthy one Red   Slash  21:25, 17 July 2023 (UTC)