American Whitewater Honors Volunteers

American Whitewater honors volunteer of the month Dag Grada. Dag resides in De Kalb, Illinois and has volunteered time as a kayak instructor for Northern Illinois University for well over a decade. Dag also volunteers on behalf of American Whitewater’s efforts to gain access to the whitewater of northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan including monitoring the ongoing removal of Michigan‘s Sturgeon River dam and obtaining releases on Minnesota‘s St. Louis River. As American Whitewater’s original streamkeeper for the northern Midwest, Dag has been exploring and documenting steep creeks in Michigan‘s Upper Peninsula and Minnesota‘s Lake Superior North Shore. In recent years Dag has been spending winters exploring the whitewater of the Dominican Republic (see photoe) where he guides and arranges trips for snowbird boaters. His clients have included the Twitch (2000) video team. You may have seen Dag most recently volunteering at the American Whitewater booth at Canoecopia in Madison. American Whitewater recognizes Dag Grada, volunteer of the month and past honorees including Nathan Galbreath, Dylan King, Sam Johnson, Tom O’Keefe, Don Kinser, Kris Schmidt, Jeff Tallman, Dan Peschio, Vicky Vine, Karen V’Soske, Keith Jensen, Brad Roberts, Nancy Gilbert, Chris Bell and Rod Baird.