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Join McKenzie River Trust for the fifth annual Upstream gathering featuring internationally acclaimed writer and environmental advocate Robert Macfarlane. Author of the 2025 New York Times bestselling book Is a River Alive?, Macfarlane challenges us to see rivers not as resources, but as living beings with stories, rights, and futures. The evening includes reflections from his travels and a conversation with Eugene Mayor Kaarin Knudson on what it means to be a river community in the headwaters of the Willamette. [More Info]