Although there have been too few years to determine the overall success of a reintroduction program into areas upstream of the Pelton Round Butte complex of dams on the Deschutes River, Portland General Electric and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists have tallied 886 spring chinook salmon, sockeye salmon and summer steelhead on their way back to the Crooked, Deschutes and Metolius rivers the last five years.
