Down the River Cleanup
Sunday, September 7th, 2008
FREE ADMISSION

Mark your calendar and plan to join us for this fun community stewardship event.
Our flotilla of boaters and rafters will clean the river from Barton to Oregon City. Participants will be rewarded with a barbecue and music! Registration and more event details will be available here in August. Click here to watch a video from last year's cleanup! Check out the Down the River Cleanup website for more information about how you can get involved.

FREE TREES! FREE TREES!

Find out about our Streamside Stewards Program and how you can get Free Trees and shrubs planted on your property. Planting native vegetation enhances water quality and fish and wildlife habitat. For more information on our FREE Trees program click here.

Also, don't forget to sign up to join us in tree planting work parties. For more information please contact rachael@clackamasriver.org or call 503-558-0550.

Pesticides are commonly used in schools, parks, yards, gardens, farms, and along roads to kill unwanted pests. Often after heavy rains, stormwater runoff becomes a highway for the transport of pesticides, allowing them to enter our waterways. A multi-year study recently released by the US Geological Survey detected the presence of numerous pesticides within the Clackamas River basin. Even though pesticides are far below human health benchmarks, their presence is a warning sign. The time is to act now before it develops into a BIG problem. For more information about how you can reduce your pesticide use please click here.
Please help us assess what is happening in our watershed by taking a short survey.

Learn more about invasive Japanese knotweed, an introduced ornamental that we are working to control in the Clackamas watershed. The KNOTWEED homepage shares important information about the plant's destructive behavior, potential solutions, and how you can help the work currently underway by our dedicated knotweed control team. For more information click here.

Click this map to learn more about the watershed or our projects.

(Click inside watershed area)

Current News, Fall/Winter 2007 (PDF, 491 KB) To receive our biennial newsletter or email bulletins about the watershed please contact: laura@clackamasriver.org

The Clackamas River Basin Council along with other Clackamas Stewardship Partners were honored to receive the TWO CHIEF's AWARD presented on January 31, 2008!

The Two Chiefs' Award is an award from the Chief of US Forest Service and the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, in recognition of the Clackamas Stewardship Partners collaborative efforts to enhance ecosystem health and economic viability of local communities. Click here to read an article highlighting the Clackamas Stewardship Partners hard work and dedication featured in the Oregonian on March 26, 2008.

Clackamas Stewardship Partners include: USFS' Clackamas River Ranger District, Pacific Northwest Research Station - Portland Forestry Sciences Laboratory; NRCS, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Clackamas County Soil and Water Conservation District, Clackamas County Board of County Commissioners, Clackamas River Basin Council, Northwest Oregon Resource Conservation and Development Council, Portland State University, the Northwest Forest Conservancy, Bark, Oregon Wild, and the Gifford Pinchot Task Force.

For more information about the Two Chief's Award CLICK HERE.