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2024 River Champion Award
The 2024 River Champion Awards spotlight the power of Indigenous leadership, grassroots advocacy, and collaboration. Rivers and waters across the country face many challenges. We must carry forward the lessons from the Klamath, and the examples set by these leaders, to protect and restore rivers nationwide. American Rivers is honored to celebrate the following River […]
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Let Milwaukee Rise
Can one of the country’s most segregated cities come together around water?
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Pacific Northwest
Rivers define the Pacific Northwest, from big cities to remote wilderness. Rivers provide clean water for drinking and support an abundance of wildlife including salmon and steelhead, the cornerstone of the region’s web of life. Recreation, agriculture, energy production, and industry all rely on rivers. Rivers have significant cultural value for the region’s Tribal Nations, […]
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Northern Rockies
The Northern Rockies region is home to the largest collection of pristine free-flowing rivers and native trout fisheries left in the lower 48 states. The headwaters of these pristine rivers originate in three sprawling wilderness complexes – the Crown of the Continent along the US-Canadian border; the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem where the Missouri, Snake, and Green rivers are […]
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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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Mid-Atlantic
Rivers are the lifeblood of health and the economy across the Mid-Atlantic. The region is shaped by great waterways like the Susquehanna, Delaware, Potomac, James, and Alleghany — rivers that are critical to fish, birds, and wildlife. More than 46 million people in the Mid-Atlantic get their drinking water from rivers. Agriculture and manufacturing — […]
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North Fork of the Flathead River
North Fork of the Flathead River Transboundary conservation at its best In the 1940s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sought permission to build Glacier View Dam on the North Fork of the Flathead River that serves as the western boundary of Montana’s Glacier National Park. The dam would have inundated some 25 miles of […]
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Penobscot River
Penobscot River Ancestral homeland in Recovery Before the 1830s, there were no dams on Maine’s Penobscot River. Atlantic salmon ran upstream in schools numbering 50,000 or more. Shad and alewives migrated 100 miles upriver. Twenty pound striped bass and Atlantic sturgeon ranged far from the ocean into New England’s second largest river. Since 2013, the […]
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Little Tennessee River
Little Tennessee River Living Large You’d be hard pressed to pick just one exceptional aspect of the Little Tennessee River. From its headwaters in the Chattahoochee National Forest of northeast Georgia, through the mountains of scenic western North Carolina, along the southern border of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, on down to Fontana Lake and […]
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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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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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2022 Impact Report
Breakthroughs A river reclaiming its nature — breaking through — makes our hearts beat faster. In 2022, we won victories that improved neighborhoods’ access to nature, made it possible for species to survive, and lessened flooding in someone’s front yard. Those are the breakthroughs we fight for — with your generous support. Featured Stories Read […]