Volunteer Work Parties
Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
9:00am- 1pm

Want to help the Clackamas watershed but don’t know how? Well you are in luck because the Clackamas River Basin Council will be hosting a work party where we will remove invasive species and plant native trees in the Damascus or Happy Valley area. If you would like to join us please contact Laura at (503) 558- 0550 or laura@clackamasriver.org. If this date does not work for you and you would like to become involved please contact us to set up a time.


Swales/Rain Garden Seminar
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
3 pm until 5pm

What: Metro brings together an engineer, landscape architect and contractor to bring you a balanced perspective and complete spectrum of information on swales and rain gardens. For more details click here.

Where: Doubletree Hotel, 1000 NE Multnomah, Portland, OR

Cost and Registration: $49 Building Green Council; $59 HBA member; $79 Non-Members. Click here to register

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 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.

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.

Down the River Cleanup

In early September, 319 volunteers removed 4,160 pounds of trash during the 6th annual Down the River Cleanup! Since 2003, this annual event has involved over 1,265 volunteers who removed more than 31,400 pounds of trash from the river! To find out about more about the cleanup visit downtherivercleanup.org

Please click here to view video footage from this year's event.

Snapshot Water Quality Event
Portland State University students with the Student Watershed Research Project (SWRP) collected water samples from the Clackamas River watershed. To learn more about this snapshot event click here.

Current News, Spring/Summer 2008 (PDF, 491 KB) To receive our biennial newsletter or email bulletins about the watershed please contact: laura@clackamasriver.org

Summer 2009 Guided Tours

Join CRBC board member Bryon Boyce for FREE guided tours throughout the Clackamas River Basin. Make sure you mark your calendar for the following summer 2009 dates; June 21st, June 28th, July 19th, and August 23rd. Click here for more details about these awesome interpretive tours.