4 Bills would jumpstart the America the Beautiful Initiative
With record high temperatures and historically low water levels, we need to conserve and restore 30 percent of lands and waters by 2030
Our 2023 Budget for Rivers
The challenges facing rivers can feel overwhelming. Climate change, perhaps rivers’ most existential threat, is fueling record-breaking floods and drought. A long history of racial injustice forces the impacts of climate change, along with pollution, dams and other...
AMC’s Waters and Rivers Protection Fund Expands Whitewater Paddling Across the Region
Julia Khorana can remember a time when the Deerfield River in Western Massachusetts was nearly unusable by paddlers and whitewater lovers. The problem, back in the early 1990s, was that the old hydroelectric dam that held back water in the summer months resulted in an...
25 Dams to Watch in 2022
As part of “Free Rivers: the state of dam removal in the U.S.”, American Rivers is spotlighting 25 projects to watch for 2022 and beyond. Thousands of dams need to come down in the U.S., and there are opportunities for river restoration at every size and scale....