Wild About Our Waterways – Meet Your Local Riverkeepers

Join the Riverkeepers of the Willamette, Tualatin, and Columbia rivers for an evening of stories, strategy, and shared purpose. Hear updates on the work each organization is leading—from local restoration projects and community programs to collaborative policy efforts that defend clean water and healthy habitats across the region. We will discuss current campaigns, issues of concern, and why we are more powerful when we work together. Enjoy complimentary appetizers and beverages as you connect with others who care deeply about the rivers that sustain our communities.  

• What: Rumble on the River #27: Wild About Our Waterways – Meet Your Local Riverkeepers
• Date: November 20, 2025
• Time: Doors and Info Tables at 5:30 p.m., Panel at 6:30 p.m.
• Location: Hoku, 1125 SE Madison St., Portland, Oregon 97214
• Parking: Some paid on-site parking is available as well as free street parking
• Cost: Free!

Panelists will include:

Columbia Riverkeeper’s Senior Community Organizer, Kate Murphy and Staff Attorney, Teryn Yazdani; Tualatin Riverkeepers’ Executive Director, Glenn Fee and Advocacy and Policy Director, Kelsey Shaw Nakama; and Willamette Riverkeeper’s Co-Executive Director & Lower Willamette Riverkeeper, Heather King and Co-Executive Director & Upper Willamette Riverkeeper, Michelle Emmons.

BACKGROUND

Since 2022, Rumble On The River has presented 26 community forums in neighborhoods throughout Portland and at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, University of Oregon. Rumbles bring together expert voices to discuss a range of environmental and social topics. These have included the Columbia & Willamette River ecosystems, transportation, false climate solutions, urban forestry, shade equity, risk-bonding, salmon restoration, the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund and the Western Hemisphere’s most toxic site–Hanford. A recurring Rumble focus has been the Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub and the potential hazards of having 90 percent of Oregon’s fuel and a dangerous mix of chemicals stored within Portland’s city limits on a riverside seismic liquefaction zone.

RUMBLE CO-SPONSORS

• 350 PDX 
• Alliance for Democracy 
• Arbor Lodge Neighborhood Association
• Bird Alliance of Oregon 
• Braided River Campaign 
• Breach Collective 
• Cathedral Park Neighborhood Association 
• Columbia Riverkeeper 
• Community for Earth/First Unitarian Portland 
• Cully Association of Neighbors 
• EcoFaith Recovery 
• Economic Justice Action Group/First Unitarian Portland
• Extinction Rebellion-PDX 
• Frog Ferry 
• Havurah Climate Action Team 
• Human Access Project 
• KBOO Radio 90.7 
• Kenton Neighborhood Association 
• Linnton Neighborhood Association 
• Mosquito Fleet 
• Mt Tabor Neighborhood Association 
• Neighbors for Clean Air 
• No More Freeways 
• OPAL, Environmental Justice Oregon 
• Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club 
• Oregon Conservancy Foundation 
• Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility 
• Pearl District Neighborhood Association 
• P.E.S.T. Projection 
• Portland Committee on Human Rights in the Philippines 
• Portland Harbor Community Advisory Group 
• Portland Harbor Community Coalition 
• Portland Jobs with Justice 
• Portland Raging Grannies 
• Portland Youth Climate Strike 
• Portsmouth Neighborhood Association 
• St. Johns Neighborhood Association 
• Sauvie Island Community Association 
• Sunrise Movement PDX
• Tank The Tanks
• Third Act Oregon 
• Willamette Riverkeeper