Protecting Rivers & Your Clean Water
Fishing the Green River in Colorado
Matt Rice, Director, Colorado Conservation
August 22, 2012 | Water Pollution, Dams & Dam Removal, Climate Change, Most Endangered Rivers, Water Supply
A couple weeks ago I joined Scott Willoughby of the Denver Post on a float fishing trip on the Green River in the remote Norhtwest corner of Colorado. Few people know about or have much less fished this section of one of the west’s most iconic trout rivers. We were drawn there because of rumors of big trout, beautiful scenery, and solitude. We found all three.
Read more »Mining, Rivers, and Volcanoes Don't Mix
August 13, 2012 | Water Pollution, Most Endangered Rivers, Wild and Scenic RiversAs we learn over and over again, nature is amazing at healing itself, and the area is now recovering with diverse forms of life mingled with scars from its explosive past. Sadly, the Green River valley is increasingly targeted for mining and exploratory drilling.
Read more »Growing Up On The Wild Skykomish River
Jessie Thomas-Blate, Coordinator, Most Endangered Rivers
June 7, 2012 | Dams & Dam Removal, Most Endangered Rivers, Wild and Scenic Rivers
The more I travel and with each new city I live in, nothing becomes more apparent to me than how blessed I was to have grown up on the Skykomish River. With its stunning clear green-blue water running beneath the cliffs of Mount Index, it’s a paradise that even to this day doesn’t exist anywhere else.
Read more »Protecting The Mighty Kaw
Fay Augustyn, Intermountain West Blue Trails Manager
May 31, 2012 | Water Pollution, Most Endangered Rivers
With Memorial Day behind us, the unofficial start to summer is underway! One of my favorite summer activities is getting out on the river. Picture your favorite river moment – the sun beating down, water flowing underneath your fingertips, a light breeze blowing coolly past you. Tell me that is not a perfect moment. The Kansas River, or the Kaw as it is called by local residents, provides these moments and many others to the people of Kansas.
Read more »Making The Right Decision For The Kansas River
Jessie Thomas-Blate, Coordinator, Most Endangered Rivers
May 31, 2012 | Water Pollution, Most Endangered Rivers
Most Endangered. What this means is that the Kansas River is on the brink of a permanent change – a change in state from an already impacted, yet remarkably resilient and still wild river, to a controlled ditch.
Read more »Impact of Mountaintop Mining on Public Health
Jessie Thomas-Blate, Coordinator, Most Endangered Rivers
May 30, 2012 | Blue Trails, Water Pollution, Most Endangered Rivers
As a child, a stream behind my house in Hughes Creek, West Virginia, provided endless hours of entertainment. I turned over rocks to find crawfish. I skipped rocks across it and attempted to catch minnows. I sent bottles downstream with notes in them requesting someone (I imagined in a foreign land) contact me. I waded across the stream in summer and had my own private “pool.”
Read more »An Issue Of Diligence
Jessie Thomas-Blate, Coordinator, Most Endangered Rivers
May 29, 2012 | Water Pollution, Dams & Dam Removal, Most Endangered Rivers
In 1958, the Colorado River District received a decree for water rights for a project known as West Divide. This project was to burden the Crystal River of Colorado with a series of dams and miles of water diversions, pipelines, conduits, and canals.
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