There’s nothing quite like seeing a river roar back to life each spring with the cold snowmelt that is every river’s natural born right. When historic flow regimes are returned to de-watered river systems, paddlers and native fish, plants and wildlife win.
American Whitewater works with partners to restore flows to rivers impacted by dams across the United States through a number of means. The most common is through the hydro-electric relicensing process, but other times, we work through community driven coalitions, negotiating to put as much water back in a river as possible.
The desert region of the Southwestern United States is well known for its deep, rugged canyons where sediment-rich rivers carve winding paths through geology spanning millions of years. These canyons play host to some of the world’s premier…
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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, fall 2017