Search Results for: rough ready
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Pearl River Named Among America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2023
Dam and development scheme would worsen Jackson’s drinking water and flooding problems Contact: Olivia Dorothy, American Rivers, 217-390-3658 Washington — American Rivers today named the Pearl River among America’s Most Endangered Rivers®, citing the threat that a private real estate development scheme poses to one of the most biodiverse rivers in the U.S. and the primary […]
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Looking Back And Ahead With National River Cleanup®
American Rivers is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with a fresh look, a bold new vision, and a new tagline: Life Depends on RiversSM. We are excited to continue championing a powerful river movement within this new framework through National River Cleanup® (NRC), American Rivers’ volunteer engagement program. NRC has supported more than 1 […]
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California Central Valley Program
California’s Central Valley is a vital region both ecologically and economically, with the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers flowing from their headwaters in the Sierra Nevada to nourish a landscape that stretches from above the Bay Area down to Southern California. With California facing an intense multi-year drought, protecting and restoring these rivers, their wetlands, […]
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65 Dams Removed in 2022, Reconnecting 430 Upstream River Miles
Contact: Amy Souers Kober, 503-708-1145 Resources: The movement to restore healthy, flowing rivers continues to grow, American Rivers announced today, with 65 dams in 20 states removed in 2022, reconnecting more than 430 upstream miles of rivers. Dam removal is a proven tool to restore river health, improve public safety, revitalize fish and wildlife populations, […]
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The Heart, the River, and Building a Movement
California is living through a critical ecological moment, and the time has never been riper to build a movement around river health. From an intensive years-long drought to the recent series of atmospheric rivers that have inundated the state, we have been dealing with the whiplash between drought and flood, but also the emotional whiplash […]
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Let Milwaukee Rise
Can one of the country’s most segregated cities come together around water?
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Omnibus bill includes key river protections, but more action needed
Contact: Kayeloni Scott, 208-790-1815, kscott@americanrivers.org Washington, DC – American Rivers is very pleased to see Congress protect and restore rivers as a part of an end of year spending bill including new Wild and Scenic River designations and studies for nearly 200 miles of rivers in Maine, Connecticut, and Florida. A bipartisan group of members […]
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Congress sends the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 to the desk of the President
The largest Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) in history was recently passed by the Senate and comes in at a time when our nation needs it most.
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Southwest
Local communities depend on river habitats as well, and our work expands local access to natural spaces whether in the urban or rural context, the valleys or mountains. California is experiencing the severe impacts of climate change, manifesting in years-long drought, intensified floods and wildfires, and loss of biodiversity. From its headwaters in the Rocky […]
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Northeast
Rivers are the lifeblood of the health and economy in New England and New York. More than 30 million people in the Northeast get their drinking water from rivers. All wildlife depends on rivers and streams for water and habitat. The economy depends on rivers for everything from watering crops to moving goods to sustaining […]
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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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Verde River
Verde River Turning water into wine The Verde River is already about halfway through its 180-mile journey before it really becomes recognizable as a river. But by the time it accumulates enough of Arizona’s patchy precipitation about 30 miles southwest of Flagstaff, it blossoms into a perennial gem that passes through one of the most […]