Search Results for: dam removal success
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River Champion Award
February 3, 2023 The American Rivers “River Champion” award recognizes leaders who are improving lives and strengthening our nation by advancing solutions for healthy rivers and clean water. The 2025 awards celebrating leaders for clean water and safe, healthy communities. Representative Chuck Edwards (R-NC) Representative Edwards represents Western North Carolina’s 11th congressional district. The congressman introduced three public […]
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Let Milwaukee Rise
January 1, 2023 Can one of the country’s most segregated cities come together around water?
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Pacific Northwest
December 15, 2022 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
December 15, 2022 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
December 15, 2022 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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Central
December 15, 2022 Coursing through the heart of the Central Region, both the mighty Mississippi River and the storied Missouri River are rich in historical, cultural, ecological, and economic significance. They provided both the starting point and guiding path for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Their adjacent rolling hills, forested bluffs, and expansive floodplains are […]
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Mid-Atlantic
December 15, 2022 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
December 13, 2022 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
December 13, 2022 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
December 13, 2022 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
December 13, 2022 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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Elwha River
December 13, 2022 Elwha River (Re)Born to be wild The Elwha River is the site of one of our country’s most significant and successful dam removal and river restoration projects. Flowing from the heart of Washington’s Olympic National Park, a visit to the Elwha River feels sacred. The creation story of the Lower Elwha Klallam people originates in […]