Willamette Community (Information) Fair Ideas

Draft: March 28, 2008

Extent to which it’s been described as of March 28, 2008:

“Community Fair - focused on river safety, water quality, river clean-up, recreation and industry partners etc. – not your usual sustainability suspects but instead focused on river/water related orgs and efforts (11am-5pm)”

Objectives

•  deliver river-specific information in engaging ways to public

•  encourage and channel public feedback / questions about River

•  each booth/table/experience to repeat, single, take-home message

•  stand out as different from other booth/table events

Possible participants:

Portland Parks bureau

River Renaissance

Bureau of Environmental Services

Port of Portland

Bridgestories

Travel Portland

LCREP

American Rivers

River Network

Local Watershed Councils

Willamette Riverkeeper

Oregon Trout

Superfund Citizen Advisory Committee

U.S. Geological Survey

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Coast Guard

Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

Upstream communities