Search Results for: national river clean up
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Bringing Voices Together to Remove Obstacles: Three Dam Removal Handbooks Completed in Three Years
In 2015, Erin McCombs of American Rivers invited the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to join the North Carolina Aquatic Connectivity Team (ACT), a group focused on river connectivity and dam removal. This was an unusual move as regulators do not often get invited to participate in such groups — but the brilliant approach of the […]
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California Central Valley Program
California’s Central Valley is a vital region both ecologically and economically, with the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers flowing from their headwaters in the Sierra Nevada to nourish a landscape that stretches from above the Bay Area down to Southern California. With California facing an intense multi-year drought, protecting and restoring these rivers, their wetlands, […]
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Breaking New Ground in California’s Mountain Meadows
Restoration of four meadows in California, totaling 388 acres, contributes directly to the goals of the Sierra Meadows Partnership, a landscape-scale collaborative of meadow restoration practitioners aiming to restore and protect 30,000 meadow acres by 2030.
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The Fate of a Dam in Cherokee
Joey Owle’s quest to remove a dam, secure the future of native species, and restore Long Man
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Celebrating 50 Years and Looking Toward the Future
American Rivers is kicking off our 50th anniversary year — and launching a vision that will carry us, and the rivers you love, into the future.
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It Takes a Village
The story of a hometown river threatened by development — and the communities that stepped up to protect it.
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Let Milwaukee Rise
Can one of the country’s most segregated cities come together around water?
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Southeast
The communities of the Southeast are as diverse as its natural landscapes. From the bucolic Chatham County, NC to bustling Atlanta Georgia, from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to the Gullah Geechee people of the Carolina, Georgia, and Florida coasts, and the rapidly growing Latino communities who have made the Southeast home, rivers connect […]
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Northern Rockies
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
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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Great Lakes
The Great Lakes basin contains 20 percent of the world’s fresh water. It is home to 10 percent of the U.S. population who depend on the lakes and the rivers that feed into them for clean drinking water, agricultural production, manufacturing, industry, transportation, and shipping. The effort to save America’s best free-flowing streams had some of its earliest […]
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Milwaukie community to benefit from $15,000,000 federal infrastructure grant for stream health, salmon, transportation, access to nature
December 14, 2022 Contact: April McEwen, Project ManagerAmerican Rivers206-213-0330amcewen@americanrivers.org Neil Schulman, Executive DirectorNorth Clackamas Watersheds Council503-550-9282neil@ncwatersheds.org NOAA Restoration Center’s largest grant in history will advance Kellogg Creek Restoration and Community Enhancement Project The Milwaukie community will be a major beneficiary of the federal funds available through the recent Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The NOAA […]