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River Protection
WHAT DOES RIVER PROTECTION MEAN TO YOU? For American Rivers it means: ✔️ Expanding our work to defend threatened rivers ✔️ Dramatically scaling permanent protection for rivers essential for climate resilience and biodiversity ✔️ Developing strategies to increase equitable access to nearby nature ✔️ Supporting Indigenous People and tribal-led protection efforts Public Lands and Public […]
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River Budget: National Priorities for Healthy Rivers and Clean Water (FY24)
Water flowing in our streams, rivers, and creeks is a precious resource: It comprises two-thirds of our drinking water and is critical to the health of our communities. Rivers also serve as critical habitats for fish and wildlife. Plus, rivers sustain our economies, connect our communities to nature, and buffer our cities and towns against […]
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Wear your love for rivers
Grow the movement to protect rivers — one T-shirt at a time. We are celebrating Mother Earth with a limited-edition collection featuring artwork by mom, artist, and river lover Sarah Uhl. Every purchase helps us protect and restore the rivers you love. Click here to learn more about Sarah and the inspiration behind her illustration. […]
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Champion a powerful river movement
Healthy rivers are for everyone, not just a privileged few. Rivers, greenspaces, public lands, and clean water belong to everyone. And everyone should feel like they belong in natural places — and in the movement to protect rivers and preserve clean water. People will only work to save something if they know it, care about […]
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Key Takeaways from the Omnibus Spending Package: What’s in it for rivers?
On December 20, appropriators released the highly anticipated fiscal year 2023 omnibus spending package which includes modest environmental and conservation funding increases.
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Bipartisan protections for the rivers on which life depends
American Rivers is asking Congress to pass a land and water protection package that includes new Wild and Scenic River and public lands protections for rivers pending in Congress that would conserve rivers in seven states, from Maine to Oregon.
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Upper Basin of the Colorado River
Upper Basin of the Colorado River The Colorado River provides water to nearly 40 million people, flows through 9 National Parks, and drives a $1.4 trillion economy. If the Colorado River basin were a country, it would be the world’s 7th largest by economic output. But the river is stretched to its limit. Climate change […]
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Yadkin Pee Dee River
Yadkin Pee Dee River The Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin covers more than 7,200 square miles of the Carolinas connecting the mountains of northwestern North Carolina to the Lowcountry of South Carolina. From its headwaters near Blowing Rock, the Yadkin River flows east and then south across North Carolina’s densely populated midsection. It travels 203 miles — passing farmland; draining […]
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Yuba River
Yuba River An Enduring Sierra Classic The Yuba River is a California classic. In the best sense, that includes the giant, polished granite boulders and emerald green water that creates cascades perfect for whitewater paddlers during high spring flows, transforming to idyllic swimming holes in the warm summer months. Rising on the eastern border of […]
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Neuse River
Neuse River RIVER OF PEACE The Neuse—derived from the Native American Neusiok tribe and translating to “peace”—is an excellent river to experience. Linking North Carolina’s original capital city of New Bern to its current capital of Raleigh, the Neuse River serves as a 250-mile connection between past and future—and the Piedmont and Pamlico Sound. A […]
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Nooksack River
Nooksack River The only thing it lacks is the Wild and Scenic label The Nooksack River puts the great in the Great Northwest. Its spectacular North Fork is the northernmost river in Washington, running wild with icy glacial snowmelt from the snowfields of 10,778-foot Mount Baker and 9,127-foot Mount Shuksan in North Cascades National Park, […]
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Paria River
Paria River While some rivers are celebrated for cobbled floors that flash through cool, clear water, the Paria River is best known for its turbid, muddy waters. The Paria is an expert in the delivery of sediment, which is critical for the health of all rivers, and for the habitat they provide. For the weight […]