Community Events

Earth Day at Dragonfly Farm

10 Year Anniversary Celebration – Join us all for live music, educational vendors, food tucks, prizes, and more. Event will be held on Saturday, April 26th, 2025!

A local event at a family-run plant nursery in the Langlois community. The Stream Trailer makes special appearances to celebrate our one Earth, its variety of life, while also sharing ways to protect it.

Fundraiser at The Spoon!

The Spoon is hosting a fundraiser for CWP on August 22nd, 2025 from 5:30-9 pm!

Join us for a night of tasty food, good music, and great company! Dance along to the folk/rock music of Mercury Coast! Enjoy the taco bar provided by The Spoon (with veg options)! N/A drinks and dessert will be offered as well.

We will also be raffling off a ton a great items you won’t want to miss out on! Raffle and beer/wine tickets will be cash only, so remember to bring some cash with you!

Tickets go on sale online on the 1st of August, and space is limited!

Tickets for the event are $50.

Buy your tickets to reserve your spot for this fun event!

Cherish the Chetco

 
Cherish the Chetco is a river cleanup event that offers multiple ways for you to help us keep the river and its banks clean and pristine. We will offer a river float, fun educational watershed activities, and free lunch for participants!
 
Join us this year on September 6th from 9am-2pm for a float down the Chetco, cleaning up gravel bars along the way! 
 
We have a very limited number of (tandem only kayaks) and shuttle space available, so if you have your own, please bring it and join the float! (must organize your own shuttle)
If you don’t wish to kayak, you’re also welcome to pick up trash at any particular location you’d like.
If you would like to use a tandem kayak from us, please contact Samantha at samantha.hage@currywatersheds.org or (541) 373-3019

SCHEDULE:
 

9-9:30- Meet up at Alfred A. Loeb State Park to check in, get supplies, and coordinate your shuttles to Redwood Bar (or wherever you wish to begin your float down to Loeb from). We will have supplies (trash bags, gloves, trash pickers) at the check-in station at Alfred A. Loeb State Park.

10-12– Litter cleanup and river float!

12:30-2 Let’s celebrate!! Lunch, fun watershed activities, and trash drop off. 

Experience the Elk

Join us for a fun filled day on the amazing Elk River!
We will be biking a gorgeous section the river from the Elk River Salmon Hatchery to Butler Bar Campground, stopping to pick up trash along the way.
All are welcome to come, and bring their bikes with them. We will also have a number of e-bikes available to use.
 
This event will be held on September 13th, 2025.
 
More details to come!

CWP at Legends Fest

Come visit our Stream Trailer at the 2nd Annual Legends Fest!

This year’s event will be held at the Gold Beach event center on September 26 & 27th from 12-9 p.m.

The CWP’s Stream Trailer is an excellent tool we deploy to teach about non-point source pollution run-off, best management practices, and how it affects aquatic life in rivers and in the near-shore marine habitats.

Annual Rogue River Clean Up

Join us the first Saturday of June each year for a FREE rain or shine event. We sign up our community partners and volunteers for a day of stewardship! Help us clean up several gravel bars, beaches, and roadsides along the Rogue River. We will also tackle invasive weeds in the Gold Beach area!

Reach out to Kelly Timchak if you have specific questions: kelly@currywatersheds.org or 541-373-0057

The Monarch Festival

This event is planned by partners, and no date set for 2025 yet. Stay tuned!

The YEP works with volunteers to lead a life-size butterfly life cycle station at the annual Monarch Festival, held in Brookings, OR. Visitors of all ages are invited to make the beautiful metamorphosis into an adult butterfly, and then parade around the festival wearing butterfly wings.

Party in the Park

Party in the Park is scheduled for July 12th, 2025! The event will run from 12 p.m. until 4 p.m. and will be held at Buffington Park in Gold Beach. 

Curry Watersheds Partnership staff engages youth from the Gold Beach community by leading a fun, educational booth each year designed to delight and inform young learners about their world.

This year’s Party in the Park theme is “Enchanted Forest”! Our previous booth themes included: Power of the Pollinators game, Little Bo Peep’s sheep and water quality model, and Underwater Engineering with PVC and ROV’s.

Always hands-on, always educational, ALWAYS FUN!

Stream Trailer

The Stream Trailer is an interactive watershed model that teaches audiences aging from 2-102 about watersheds, non-point source pollution, riparian zones, hydrologic cycle, salmon life cycle, estuaries and SO MUCH MORE!!!

We also now have a “table top” model of a watershed as well to better serve smaller groups and classrooms. Reach out to find out more!

Request the Stream Trailer for your event!

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