We Love
Clean Rivers
Turning restoration into recreation
Stash the Trash WORKS
Working with the Clackamas River Basin Council and various riverside land managers and owners, 13 Stash the Trash stations are helping floaters, boaters, and other river lovers keep the Clackamas free of trash.
Clackamas River Summer Update!
Over the last two months, volunteers with We Love Clean Rivers have been paddling the Clackamas, meeting with riverside land managers and stakeholders, and engaging the public with simple messaging around stewardship and safety. It’s been fun. We are learning a lot.
80,446
pounds of trash pulled from our rivers
Amount of people provided with drinking water from the Clackamas river
300,000
100%
volunteer organized
4,801
volunteers and counting
41%
Amount of trash recycled from our events
70,000
pounds of trash pulled from our rivers
300,000
3,633
volunteers and counting
46%
Amount of trash recycled from our events
A few of our programs
Down the River Cleanup
The annual Down the River Clean Up is an on-the-river, 20+ mile clean up made possible by a rich network of river recreationalists, outdoor companies, environmental organizations, government entities, local community leaders, and hopefully you!
Clackamas River Ambassadors
Clackamas River Ambassadors provide river visitors with stewardship and safety info to better enjoy the Clackamas. Throughout the summer volunteers support park staff and the larger public by helping keep Stash the Trash and Life Jacket Loaner stations stocked, river information boards updated, and periodically sweep sections during fun and effective mini-cleanups. Anyone can be a River Ambassador!
Willamette Falls Cleanup
Our team has been working over the years to pull industrial debris and trash from the base of the falls and the surrounding area. With the help of our volunteers and partners we’ve been able to remove thousands of pounds of equipment via barge and crane.
Our VISION, mission, Focus
Vision
everyone has access to healthy and beautiful rivers, and cleanups are a thing of the past.
Mission
We Love Clean Rivers , Inc. is a 501©3 non‐profit organization with a mission to facilitate community based river stewardship projects.
FOCUS
We are dedicated to cleaning high use rivers by mobilizing the river recreation community in partnership with local government and community-based environmental, recreation and educational organizations.
We coordinate with canoers, kayakers, rafters, anglers, SCUBA divers and tubers, along with artists, chefs and other volunteers
We work with large stakeholder groups to improve access, promote Leave No Trace recreation and events, and foster long term stewardship.
Board
We Love Clean Rivers has proudly been a working board since its founding. If you are interested in serving on the board or volunteering in any capacity, please email us at info@welovecleanrivers.org. One of our board members will reach out to you shortly thereafter.
Thank you!
Current Board of Directors
Matt Taylor, Chair
Sam Drevo, Vice Chair
Jodie Deigan, Secretary
Travis Cooper, Treasurer
Genny Kiley, At Large
Our work
After honing our participatory “Down the River Cleanup” model on the Clackamas River for many years, We Love Clean Rivers now works in partnership with any entity interested in catalyzing the recreation community for river stewardship events.
Through community education and outreach programs like the River Ambassadors, its annual Down the River Cleanup on the Clackamas and other rivers, and associated self-guided river cleanups throughout the region, WLCR seeks to eliminate the need for annual cleanup events altogether (or turn them into celebratory floats down pristine stretches of rivers!).