by American Rivers | Jul 14, 2020
We live on a water planet, but 97.5 percent of earth’s water is too salty for human use. Only .5 percent of fresh water is actually available to us – most of it is locked up in ice caps and inaccessible aquifers. This makes our rivers and streams...
by Trout Unlimited | Jul 6, 2020
Last week TU held a webinar on our recently published report, “Why we need a free-flowing lower Snake River,” which lays out the overwhelming evidence of why we need to remove the four lower Snake River dams to rebuild...
by American Rivers | Jun 30, 2020
Historically, Colorado has had a love-hate relationship with the 1968 Wild & Scenic Rivers Act. While we have unarguably some of the wildest and most scenic rivers in America, Colorado has only one such designated section – the Cache la Poudre River above...
by Trout Unlimited | Jun 8, 2020
This week the United States Senate will consider the S. 3422, the Great American Outdoors Act, which includes provisions to provide full, dedicated funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and also provide $9.5 billion in funding to address the deferred...
by American Rivers | Jun 5, 2020
Restoration funding in the Puget Sound and across the country is generated from tax revenue. Over 50% of Washington’s revenue comes from sales, business & occupancy and property tax. Preliminary estimates show the state could lose $7 billion in revenue due...
by Trout Unlimited | Jun 5, 2020
It pays to be prepared, even when you’re just out for a casual drive We’d walked well over a mile down the lonely Forest Service road, well out of the way from the Island Park bustle. The sun was retreating and the mosquitoes had discovered us. And we had...
by Trout Unlimited | Jun 5, 2020
By Jamie Vaughan With a planting bag slung over their shoulders, gloves, and a specialized tree planting tool called a hoedad in hand, the Rogue River Tree Army descended toward the river. In just three weeks, 16,000 newly...
by Colleen McNally-Murphy | Apr 20, 2020
Hydropower Reform Coalition members California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, South Yuba River Citizens League, Americna Rivers, American Whitewater, Friends of the River, California Outdoors, Trout Unlimited, and Northern California Council of Fly-Fishers, in...
by Colleen McNally-Murphy | Apr 9, 2020
On April 7, the long effort to restore the Klamath River and its once-prolific salmon and steelhead runs passed another major milestone when the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) issued its Clean Water Act Section 401 water quality certification...
by Colleen McNally-Murphy | Mar 26, 2020
The Hydropower Reform Coalition submitted comments on March 10, 2020 in opposition to proposed changes to the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Coalition’s comments state that the proposed new NEPA rule would make analysis worse and...
