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Tracing the River's Edge
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Heidi Berg uses a backpack GPS to locate the high water line along the Willamette.
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Learning from Milwaukie
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Rivers Office staff listen as Joanne Herrigel describes the City of Milwaukie's riverfront progress.
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Tracking the River's Natural Resources
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Kevin Kilduff and Heidi Berg (Rivers Office) participate in the inventory of natural resources along the Willamette.
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Swan Island visit
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Lenny Anderson, Swan Island Transportation Management Association, shows Rivers Office staff key features of the lagoon.
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Building River Awareness
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Ann Beier chats with people about the river at the Port's Seaport Celebration.
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Visiting the University of Portland
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Ann Beier learns more about UP's plans for a future riverfront campus.
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Celebrating the River
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Patti Howard (Commissioner Fritz' Office) shares river observations with Paul Lumley, Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission, at RiverFest.
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Downtown on the Willamette
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Rivers Office staff take an up-close look at the Willamette's Central Reach in downtown Portland.
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Understanding the Harbor
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Director Ann Beier learns about marine operations at Gunderson's barge-building facility.
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Working with the Harbormaster
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Cary Turkon (Commissioner Fritz' Office), Harbormaster Ray Pratt, and Rick Bastasch (Rivers Office) take a closer look at riverbank condition.
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The Portland Building's ecoroof
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Director Ann Beier, Tom Liptan (Bureau of Env. Services), and Dr. Derek Booth discuss stormwater treatments and the river.
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Rivers Office Open House
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Staff talk with other organizations and City bureaus about the Rivers Office' mission and work program.
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Visiting the Confluence
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Tim Crail and Patti Howard from Commissioner Fritz' Office at the mouth of the Willamette.
River Partnerships
Rivers result from a watershed's worth of climate, landscape, and human communities. Understanding the River requires appreciating where it's been and where it's going.
The Rivers Office actively seeks out opportunities to communicate with other towns, businesses, and organizations living and working all along the River. Every interaction offers opportunities to learn different ways to approach common issues and brings new insights on how we can better work together.
The slideshow above shows some photos demonstrating how the Rivers Office is partnering for a better river. Here are a few examples illustrating our current partnerships:
- The Big Float: getting people into the River...
Between 1,000 and 2,000 people celebrated a sunny Sunday by participating in The Big Float--Portland's first annual inner-tube-based celebration of the Willamette! To see the variety of people (and floating devices), click here. To read an accounts of the day, click here.
- RiverFest: celebrating the Willamette; learning how to do more
- Honoring Our River: supporting the annual student anthology of essays, poems, and art that gives young people a river voice.
- Love Your River: an engaging, active forum to learn how to help improve our rivers.
- The Intertwine: Growing awareness of the amazing network of parks, trails and natural areas in the Portland-Vancouver area.
- Willamette River Exhibits at OMSI: The Rivers Office joined with OMSI, TriMet, and others to fund the development of new exhibits on the Willamette.
- Oregon Urban Watersheds: The Rivers Office initiated this social network site to encourage communication among practitioners of urban watershed management.
- Seaport Celebration: Recognizing the role of the working river in our economy.
- Oregon Maritime Coalition: exploring the potential for a new waterfront center to tell the story of Portland's river life.
- Groundwork Portland Green Team: supporting an environmental justice and service-learning project for young people from low-income backgrounds that will turn a brownfield to a new greenspace.
The list below displays the individual photos making up the slideshow at the top of the page.
Tim Crail and Patti Howard from Commissioner Fritz' Office at the mouth of the Willamette.
Staff talk with other organizations and City bureaus about the Rivers Office' mission and work program.
Director Ann Beier, Tom Liptan (Bureau of Env. Services), and Dr. Derek Booth discuss stormwater treatments and the river.
Cary Turkon (Commissioner Fritz' Office), Harbormaster Ray Pratt, and Rick Bastasch (Rivers Office) take a closer look at riverbank condition.
Director Ann Beier learns about marine operations at Gunderson's barge-building facility.
Rivers Office staff take an up-close look at the Willamette's Central Reach in downtown Portland.
Patti Howard (Commissioner Fritz' Office) shares river observations with Paul Lumley, Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission, at RiverFest.
Ann Beier learns more about UP's plans for a future riverfront campus.
Ann Beier chats with people about the river at the Port's Seaport Celebration.
Lenny Anderson, Swan Island Transportation Management Association, shows Rivers Office staff key features of the lagoon.
Kevin Kilduff and Heidi Berg (Rivers Office) participate in the inventory of natural resources along the Willamette.
Rivers Office staff listen as Joanne Herrigel describes the City of Milwaukie's riverfront progress.
Heidi Berg uses a backpack GPS to locate the high water line along the Willamette.
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