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The Damned Deschutes

MAUPIN, Ore. — Alysia Littleleaf and her husband, Elke, make their living as fishing guides on the lower Deschutes River, near the Warm Springs Reservation. A major tributary of the Columbia River, the Deschutes irrigates farmland, generates electricity, and is the lifeblood of Central Oregon’s biggest industry, tourism. The river and its high desert landscape […]

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