Search Results for: rough ready
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Maumee River
Maumee River Ripe for Rediscovery The Maumee River is on the brink of a recreational renaissance Sure, the massive river draining into Lake Erie just outside of Toledo, Ohio, has been on the map for centuries, serving agriculture, industry and early Native Americans. But lately this hard-working river has been showing its leisurely side. With […]
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Mississippi River
Mississippi River A Cultural Treasure What more can be said about the mighty Mississippi River that hasn’t been said already? Plenty, apparently. Even the river’s resident literary laureate, Mark Twain, noted how much of the 2,320-mile Mississippi’s finest landscape has been long overlooked as our collective gaze has been fixed upon the river below St. […]
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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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Catawba River
Catawba River once wild Spanning two states and more than 200 miles, the Catawba is more a linked series of reservoirs than a genuine river anymore. This once-wild waterway named for the Catawba tribe of Indigenous People — “the people of the river” — rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains just east of Asheville, NC, […]
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Colorado River
Colorado River The beating heart of the American Southwest From its genesis on the Continental Divide in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park, the river originally known as the Grand grows from a cold mountain trout stream into a classic Western waterway slicing through jagged gorges between sweeping, pastoral ranchlands on the upper leg of a […]
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Colorado River in the Grand Canyon
Colorado River in the Grand Canyon The Colorado River’s Grand Canyon is one of our nation’s, and the world’s, greatest natural treasures. A sacred place of deep cultural significance, it is also a beloved recreation and travel destination, and home to a wide diversity of wildlife. But rising temperatures and severe drought driven by climate […]
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Whispers of Water Called Gila – A Returning and Exploration
Guest blog by Leeanna T. Torres, 2021 Southwest Emerging Artist Scholar; American Rivers and the FreeFlow Institute
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Effort to Restore North Carolina’s Oconaluftee River Advances
November 21, 2022 Contact:Molly Phillips, Mainspring Conservation Trust, 828.524.2711 or mphillips@mainspringconserves.orgChuck Ahlrichs, Northbrook Carolina Hydro II, LLC 480.551.1221 or cahlrichs@nbenergy.com Erin McCombs, American Rivers, 828.649.7887 or emccombs@americanrivers.orgJoey Owle, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, 828.359.6260 or joeyowle@ebci-nsn.gov A regionally and nationally significant river restoration project is moving forward on the Oconaluftee River, where a coalition of federal, state, tribal, nonprofit and […]
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Peek Behind the Scenes: Van Reed Paper Mill Dam Removal
The story of the Van Reed Paper Mill Dam removal project began more than 10 years and two staff coordinators ago on Cacoosing Creek in Reading, Pennsylvania. But in some ways, it began in the 1800s when the mill was in full operation.
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A Vote for Problem-Solvers
Today our team at American Rivers went to work to protect rivers, just like yesterday – and just like we will tomorrow.
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A blueprint for clean water everywhere, for everyone
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act
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How would you feel if the Grand Canyon ran dry?
Without being overly melodramatic, the reality is that unless some serious decisions are made, and fast, we could be facing the difficult reality of very little to no water being able to pass through Glen Canyon Dam, in essence creating a Grand Canyon without the guarantee of a flowing Colorado River.