Klamath River tribes gain 10,000 acres in key salmon recovery area

The land acquired by the trust includes important salmon habitat and areas near four dams that were removed from the Klamath ...

Kings River high water the challenge for wading anglers

His wading boots touched the river's edge in Madison County south of Kingston on the upper reaches of Kings. Fishermen know ...
OPB

‘Putting it back to the way it was’: Nonprofits partner to restore Oregon’s Siuslaw River estuary

A 20-year conservation effort to restore the lower Siuslaw River just got a big boost. A cattle farmer recently transferred 245 acres of land to continue restoration of the tidal estuary. The act will ...
The New York Times

The Colorado River Is Shrinking. See What’s Using All the Water.

Hint: It’s less about long showers and more about what’s for dinner. The water supply that 40 million Americans rely on has been pushed to its limit. Reservoirs and wells are running low. This week, ...
USA Today

Where does the Colorado River start? Mapping the stream from the headwaters to the basins.

The Colorado River water touches seven states and Mexico and is 1,450 miles long – the sixth longest in the nation according to river conservation organization American Rivers. More than a natural ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The 70 Million-Year-Old History of the Mississippi River

In 1758, the French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz published The History of Louisiana, in which he wrote that the Mississippi River’s name meant “the ancient father of rivers.” Though his ...