Events & Opportunities
September 20, 2025
River Talk: Recovery of the McKenzie Valley after the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire
Joe Moll, the Executive director of McKenzie River Trust, presents a talk on the recovery of the McKenzie Valley after the Holiday Farm fire. And to celebrate the finale of the River Talks, the jazz guitarist Don Latarski will perform his River Suites.
Since 1989, McKenzie River Trust has worked with willing landowners to care for more than ten thousand acres of land in Western Oregon, protecting fish, wildlife and the quality of our water. Their large-scale restoration projects are rich habitat parcels often connected like a string of pearls by the river flowing between them.
Commenting on one of these projects, the nearby restoration of the Finn Rock Reach, Moll wrote, “In the aftermath of the Holiday Farm fire we continue to be impressed and humbled by how many people look to the river as solace, as an anchor, a reason for being where we are. Without water we’re not Oregon, so anything we do to give people in the future the opportunity to enjoy the wealth we enjoy now we feel really good about.”
This event is supported by a Mini Grant for Rural Libraries from Oregon Humanities.
2:00 p.m., O'Brien Memorial Library, Blue River