Search Results for: national river clean up
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What’s the Deal With Toxic Algae?
It’s summer, prime season to play in rivers and lakes. Unfortunately, summer is also toxic algae season, which impacts our ability to enjoy our public waters. Toxic algae are actually a type of bacteria often referred to as “algae” because it looks similar. It grows quickly — in what are called “blooms” — with a […]
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Director of Philanthropy, California
TITLE: Director of Philanthropy, CaliforniaCLASSIFICATION: Director IIDEPARTMENT: AdvancementWAGE CATEGORY: ExemptREPORTS TO: Sr. Director of PhilanthropyLOCATION: California (remote/home office) Click here to apply ABOUT AMERICAN RIVERS American Rivers is championing a national effort to protect and restore all rivers, from remote mountain streams to urban waterways. Healthy rivers provide people and nature with clean, abundant water and […]
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Northwest Communications Director
Click Here to Apply ABOUT AMERICAN RIVERSAmerican Rivers is championing a national effort to protect and restore all rivers, from remote mountain streams to urban waterways. Healthy rivers provide people and nature with clean, abundant water and natural habitat. For 50 years, American Rivers’ staff, supporters, and partners have shared a common belief: Life Depends […]
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Failing dam in Minnesota underscores need for improved dam safety
June 24, 2024 Contact: Amy Souers Kober, 503-708-1145 The Rapidan Dam on the Blue Earth River near Mankato, Minnesota is failing, putting downstream communities at risk. Recent rainfall and high water levels in the river undermined the integrity of the dam, which was already in a state of disrepair. Brian Graber, senior director for river […]
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Centering Communities of Color in Flood Management
“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” -Octavia Butler It is not breaking news that communities of color (regardless of wealth) are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and specifically more vulnerable to flooding (Natural Hazards Center, 2020). It is also not news that the legacy of formal […]
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Ring Around the Bathtub – in Maine?
As a kid I always loved taking baths. And these were often after I had been bumming around in the backyard or messing in the little stream behind my friend’s house building dams in the hapless hope of making a swimming hole deep enough to do a cannonball. What I didn’t love so much was the […]
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Federal funding advances critical dam removal projects
American Rivers receives $2,700,000 for river restoration April 24, 2024 Contact: Amy Souers Kober, 503-708-1145 The effort to restore rivers got an important boost this week with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announcing $70 million in grants, supporting 43 projects to remove outdated dams and other river barriers in 29 states. American Rivers is receiving […]
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Biden announces bold freshwater protection goals
Yesterday at the White House, the Biden Administration announced bold and exciting new national goals for the protection of rivers and freshwater resources as a part of its America the Beautiful Freshwater Challenge. These goals include protecting and restoring 8 million acres of wetlands and 100,000 miles of rivers by 2030. These are the most […]
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Women’s History Month – Where We Find Motivation
For Women’s History Month, Katie Schmidt, Associate Director of the National Dam Removal Program at American Rivers, reflected on what motivates her to continue advocating for healthy, free-flowing rivers nationwide. I want my grandchildren’s grandchildren to be able to enjoy clean, free-flowing rivers. I want a world where they hear the birds sing, see fish […]
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Forests to Faucets
Forests and forested watersheds in the Southern Appalachian Mountains in the Southeastern U.S. are at serious risk due to development pressure from regional population growth, and as a result of land management practices. Compared to other regions around the country, the Southeast has some of the most vulnerable forests in the U.S. in terms of […]
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Weathering Change
Bringing Federal Policy into the 21st Century Many federal policies still encourage the same backward-looking water management approaches that didn’t work in the past and are even less suited to the future. Federal funding and policies reward wasteful water use and support destructive, inflexible infrastructure projects, while important programs that would help save water or […]
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