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Get back to “Good River”
You could say the Ohio River is in Heather Sprouse’s blood. A sixth-generation West Virginian, Heather runs a small farm that relies on water from the Ohio watershed. She is also the Ohio River Coordinator for the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, an American Rivers partner organization dedicated to conserving and restoring West Virginia’s waterways and […]
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A History of Success for America’s Most Endangered Rivers®
Each year since 1984, American Rivers’ report on America’s Most Endangered Rivers® has been a call to action for 10 rivers whose fates hang in the balance. The national campaign galvanizes thousands around the country to contact decision makers to do the right thing for rivers and the life they support. The national spotlight we […]
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St Louis River
St Louis River Superior Waterway The call of the wild may be no stronger anywhere in the lower 48 than the headwaters of the St. Louis River. Beginning in the Laurentian Uplands, where small streams divide in three directions toward Hudson Bay, Lake Superior, and the Mississippi River, it’s a land of timber wolves, moose, […]
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Yuba River
Yuba River An Enduring Sierra Classic The Yuba River is a California classic. In the best sense, that includes the giant, polished granite boulders and emerald green water that creates cascades perfect for whitewater paddlers during high spring flows, transforming to idyllic swimming holes in the warm summer months. Rising on the eastern border of […]
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Potomac River
Potomac River America’s River George Washington could have built his home anywhere on the Eastern Seaboard. He chose the Potomac River, forever identifying it as the “Nation’s River.” But even more significant than Washington’s riverside estate at Mt. Vernon and the Federal City bearing his name just upstream, the Potomac’s first calling is its service […]
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Rappahannock River
Rappahannock River Fish On The love of fishing knows no bounds. Certainly not on the Rappahannock River, at least, where Virginia Senator John Warner’s passion for fishing his home rivers provided the final push needed to reconnect the 195-mile river from the Blue Ridge Mountains across the Piedmont to the Chesapeake Bay, establishing the longest […]
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Rogue and Smith Rivers
Rogue and Smith Rivers Wild and Scenic. Rogue and Smith. There was never any question. Southwest Oregon’s Rogue River is an icon among Western waterways. As one of eight charter members of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System in 1968, the 200-mile Rogue flows from the Cascade Range near Crater Lake westward to the Pacific, […]
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Delaware River
Delaware River LIFEBLOOD OF THE NORTHEAST More than 17 million people get their drinking water from the Delaware River basin, including two of the five largest cities in the U.S.—New York City and Philadelphia. Any yet, the river offers so much more than a drinking water supply to the 42 counties and five states it […]
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Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness BOUNDARY WATERS: NORTHERN LIGHT Consider your bucket list. Now consider the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota. If you are a canoeist, a touring kayaker, or aspire to become either, odds are you’ve considered the 1.1 million-acre Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness a part of your personal bucket list for a […]
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Youth leadership for rivers and climate action
The role of rivers throughout the world is crucial to life and livelihood. One member of The Earth Guardians traveled to Glasgow for COP26 and shares her experience.
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A Most Endangered Year
Why do America’s Most Endangered Rivers still matter in the wake of a global pandemic?
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Lower Youghiogheny named among America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2020