We Love
Clean Rivers
Turning restoration into recreation
Calling all River Rats*! The Clackamas River needs a little help. While river visitors often help clean up the river as they
Thank you to River Ambassadors Bill Collins, Margarita Chmykhalova, Paul Chmykhalov and Josie Cannistra for helping build the first Clackamas Water Trail map sign.
PRESS RELEASE Clackamas Water Trail Update June 2023, CLACKAMAS RIVER, OR Hidden Treasure: Portland’s most popular river float The Clackamas Water Trail
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
WE LOVE CLEAN RIVERS WORK EXAMPLES!
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 clean high use rivers by mobilizing the recreation community and provide expertise in sustainable river recreation planning and management.
Board
We Love Clean Rivers has proudly been a working board since its founding. If you’re 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
Julie Maher, Chair
Sam Drevo, Vice Chair
Jodie Deigan, Secretary
Makaila Baron, 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 other groups to catalyze the recreation community for river stewardship.
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!).
