River Sisters Congreso, Patagonia Denver and Denver Parks & Recreation joined Colorado Rising at Shoemaker Plaza on October 26th, 2025 for a fall river clean up. Dozens of volunteers took buckets and trash pickers and scoured the banks of the South Platte River for almost a mile surrounding our base camp. They pulled bottles, plastic bags, and other

For generations, Indigenous communities have honored rivers as living relatives. Restoring the South Platte means restoring our relationships with the land, water, and each other. The oil and gas industry has been harming our communities for far too long, putting profit over the health and safety of neighborhoods in North Denver/Commerce City who are already