Results for keyword: rivers
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River rafting -- no car required
How to enjoy a summer raft trip, fossil-fuel-free.
by Jeremy N. Smith, Aug 25, 2011 -
The gift of runoff in a wet season
After too many recent dry years, residents of the Rocky Mountains are relishing the music of running water.
by Allen Best, Jul 20, 2011 -
Of rivers, boats and baseball umpires
The essays in Robin Cody's Another Way the River Has range all over the map but somehow lead back to the river.
by Melissa Hart, Aug 01, 2010 -
A river again?
The EPA extends Clean Water Act protection to L.A.'s urban watershed.
by Judith Lewis Mernit, Jul 27, 2010 -
When reverence isn't enough
Writer and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore talks about water, family and the sacredness of landscapes.
by John Calderazzo , Sep 27, 2009 -
The river wilder
River restoration is a complex business, whether you’re talking about Colorado’s fast-moving Gunnison River or the polluted urban waterways of San Francisco’s East Bay.
by Jodi Peterson , Jun 01, 2009 -
Thinking like a fish
The essays in Chad Hanson’s collection Swimming with Trout celebrate the wonder of water and its mysterious inhabitants.
by Irene Wanner, Mar 31, 2008 -
A downside to downing dams?
Removing dams is more a complex experiment than a panacea, as Arizona’s Fossil Creek shows.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Oct 01, 2007 -
Water is definitely for fighting in Montana
Rob Breeding calls steam access one of the most contentious water issues in his state.
by Rob Breeding, Apr 23, 2007 -
Elwha River dams move closer to destruction
Two massive dams on Washington's Elwha River will be demolished to restore salmon runs.
by Michelle Blank, Mar 14, 2007






