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Splashy speaks up for clean water
One little drop of a stream can change everything you know about clean water Meet Splashy, an eager small stream who wants you to know how a recent Supreme Court ruling that cut protections for streams like him, is putting your clean water at risk. The health of our rivers depends on streams like Splashy […]
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Four Things To Know About the Impacts of Dam Removal on the Klamath River
The world’s largest dam removal on the Klamath River continues to push forward, with one dam completely removed, and the remaining three in progress. During the removal process, sediment impounded in the dam’s reservoirs will keep moving downstream. What do these processes mean for fish and wildlife in the river and the communities who depend […]
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Ring Around the Bathtub – in Maine?
As a kid I always loved taking baths. And these were often after I had been bumming around in the backyard or messing in the little stream behind my friend’s house building dams in the hapless hope of making a swimming hole deep enough to do a cannonball. What I didn’t love so much was the […]
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Endangered but not Forgotten: The Tale of the Cape Fear Shiner
As an aquatic biologist, I often find myself thinking about what is going on below the water’s surface. There are numerous unique and amazing freshwater species that are plentiful in the Southeast, which is a hotspot for global biodiversity. But some species are rare and found only in remote areas after hours, days, months, or […]
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The Birds and Bees…the Fish and the Flowers?
The birds and the bees is a well-known shorthand response to a child’s inquiry about reproduction. Adults have long noted that a bird laying an egg or a bee collecting pollen show examples in nature for how new life comes along. But the fish and the flowers? Along the northeast coast as spring weather is rolling […]
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Celebrating the Chattooga’s 50th Anniversary as a Wild and Scenic River
The Chattooga River has acquired a number of distinctions and nicknames over the years, including the honor of being considered by many as “The Crown Jewel of the Southeast.” In South Carolina, the Chattooga is considered one of the state’s “Seven Natural Wonders” and is featured prominently during the annual SC-7 Expedition. It begins as […]
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Flooding and River Conservation
This is a guest blog by Tim Palmer. In river conservation we strive to make our work and stories known, and we sometimes succeed. But when rivers flood, they always make it into the news. In what has become a milestone in the history of American flooding, and of our responses to it, a deluge […]
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Deep River
A rocky rural beauty with a milltown history The Deep River, translated from the native people’s name “sapponah,” refers to the steepness of the banks and not the depth of the water. The watershed is characterized by rocky shoals, riffles and outcrops of bedrock and flows within the Carolina Slate Belt. Huge natural rock formations […]
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Progress on Farm Bill signals positive steps for clean water, healthy rivers
American Rivers applauds latest legislative updates from House and Senate May 3, 2024 Washington – This week, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and the House Committee on Agriculture released summaries and outlines of their respective farm bills. Both bills highlight reform opportunities containing more than 100 bipartisan provisions that would enhance locally […]
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Watershed Restoration is the Cornerstone of Eagle Lake’s Fishy Business
Beneath the meandering channels that run across a Sierra Nevada meadow in spring, your eye may catch silver flashes dancing along the banks. In the Pine Creek watershed of Lassen County California, those glimmers could be Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout (ELRT), a California Heritage Trout, Species of Special Concern, and endemic subspecies of rainbow trout. […]
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Farmington River
Sustaining Life for Millions The Farmington River watershed covers over 600 square miles in Massachusetts and Connecticut. It holds two national Partnership Wild & Scenic River designations and is a major tributary to the Connecticut River. The watershed has been utilized and stewarded by Indigenous people for more than 12,000 years, and in the 1600s, […]
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Federal funding advances critical dam removal projects
American Rivers receives $2,700,000 for river restoration April 24, 2024 Contact: Amy Souers Kober, 503-708-1145 The effort to restore rivers got an important boost this week with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announcing $70 million in grants, supporting 43 projects to remove outdated dams and other river barriers in 29 states. American Rivers is receiving […]