by American Rivers | Feb 18, 2021
Despite the challenges of working through a pandemic, river restoration practitioners continued to pursue dam removal projects in 2020 to revitalize local economies and communities and reconnect 624 upstream river miles for fish, wildlife and river health. Sixty-nine...
by American Rivers | Feb 9, 2021
Two summers ago, I floated the Middle Fork Salmon, in the heart of Idaho’s Frank Church–River of No Return Wilderness. The trip had everything, spectacular scenery, great fishing, wonderful companions. The only thing missing was abundant salmon and steelhead which,...
by South Yuba River Citizens League | Feb 9, 2021
SYRCL and Friends of the River sent a letter to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) on Thursday, January 27 to compel the agency to craft a watershed-wide solution to save the threatened species native to the Yuba Watershed, including Spring-run Chinook...
by American Rivers | Feb 2, 2021
This blog was written by Sinjin Eberle & Page Buono The Center for Colorado River Studies at Utah State University recently published a preprint edition of their new white paper titled, “Alternative Management Paradigms for the Future of the Colorado and Green...
by American Rivers | Jan 29, 2021
American Rivers sees the first one hundred days of the new Biden Administration as an opportunity for real change in protecting our Nation’s waters and water resources. In our 2021 Blueprint for Action , we identify overturning or reversing the anti-water protection...
by American Rivers | Jan 22, 2021
By 2050, most people on Earth will live downstream of tens of thousands of large dams built in the 20th century, many of them already operating at or beyond their design life, according to a UN University analysis. The report, “Aging water infrastructure: An emerging...
