River Network is leading a nationwide movement to preserve and restore clean and healthy waters. While rivers are our focal point, we work to protect the quality of all fresh waters and the health of all people and ecosystems dependent upon them.

Founded in 1988, we are a national nonprofit organization with headquarters in Portland, Oregon and field staff in Maryland, Vermont, North Carolina, Utah and Idaho.

We empower and inspire grassroots leaders all across America to create strong and effective organizations that protect our “home” rivers.

Our network now consists of thousands of organizations. They include grassroots watershed associations, statewide conservation groups, large river basin groups, Native American tribes, fishing and boating associations, businesses, state and federal governmental agencies and other national environmental organizations.

These groups are the direct beneficiaries of our services. Their work, in turn, benefits hundreds of millions of people from coast to coast.

We work most closely with River Network Partners — dues-paying groups that receive ongoing access to our resources, services and technical training. Our consistent support has helped many hundreds of these groups to form and grow steadily stronger over the past two decades. Many now have professional staff and hundreds or thousands of active members of their own.

Today, there are nearly 700 River Network Partner groups active across North America.