Search Results for: national river clean up
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Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness BOUNDARY WATERS: NORTHERN LIGHT Consider your bucket list. Now consider the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota. If you are a canoeist, a touring kayaker, or aspire to become either, odds are you’ve considered the 1.1 million-acre Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness a part of your personal bucket list for a […]
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California Headwaters
California relies on its headwaters in the Sierra Nevada to provide a steady clean water supply to downstream users, essential habitat for native species, and recreation for nature lovers. Rivers are an integral part of the broader landscape. We take an integrated approach to watershed management, and our projects are driven by the understanding that […]
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Climate and Environmental Injustice: Thousands without water in Jackson, Mississippi
More than a trillion dollars needs to be invested in infrastructure by the end of this decade, or communities like Jackson won’t have the resiliency to deal with the effects of climate change.
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Leadership Giving
When you invest in American Rivers, you join a community of philanthropic leaders responding boldly to transform the health of rivers in our country. Rivers provide people and nature with clean, abundant water and natural habitat. Their waters are essential to our shared future — yet rivers face unprecedented threats. Without healthy rivers, there’s no […]
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This is Climate Change
Natural disasters compound existing inequalities like housing and food insecurity. We must break this cycle.
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The Sierra Meadows Partnership and the Journey to 30,000 Acres
The Sierra Meadows Partnership (SMP) is a regional collaborative group that works to improve the resources, support, and efficacy around meadow restoration in the Sierra Nevada. This June, the group members met for their first annual meeting in three years at Ackerson Meadow in Yosemite National Park and the Stanislaus National Forest.
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The Sierra Meadows Partnership and the Journey to 30,000 Acres
The Sierra Meadows Partnership (SMP) is a regional collaborative group that works to improve the resources, support, and efficacy around meadow restoration in the Sierra Nevada. This June, the group members met for their first annual meeting in three years at Ackerson Meadow in Yosemite National Park and the Stanislaus National Forest.
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Science, Law, and Public Voice Prevail in Federal Challenge to Yazoo Pumps
Conservation groups’ lawsuit prompts Army Corps’ reversal December 15, 2021 CONTACTS: Jill Mastrototaro | Audubon Delta | (504) 481-3659 | jill.mastrototaro@audubon.org Louie Miller | Mississippi Sierra Club | (601) 624-3503 | louie.miller@sierraclub.org Olivia Dorothy | American Rivers | (217) 390-3658 | odorothy@americanrivers.org Andrew Whitehurst | Healthy Gulf | (601) 954-7236 | andrew@healthygulf.org Stu Gillespie | […]
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The Strength of Salmon
As a species, salmon have an unrelenting, almost maddening streak of stubborn.
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Using “Outstanding Waters” to Protect Colorado’s Best Streams
This is a joint blog by Michael Fiebig, Fay Hartman and Morgan Wagoner, a partner and contractor for Outstanding Waters in Colorado.
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The Climate Crisis is a Water Crisis
It is time to put rivers and freshwater at the center of the climate conversation. The stakes couldn’t be higher, as dangerous floods threaten communities, drought puts livelihoods at risk and fish and wildlife are pushed closer to extinction as streams dry up.
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So, You Didn’t Pull a Permit
Permits for favored rivers are increasingly hard to snatch, and COVID only added to the brooding desire to get outside and on the water.