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The Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) is hosting a public meeting to announce and discuss the 2009 Francis E. Walter (Lehigh River) Flow Management Plan and to provide comments and input for consideration.  The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Mountain Laurel Resort on Route 940 near White Haven, Pa.   Workshop Agenda: 6:30 p.m. – Networking session for the public and agency personnel. 7:00 p.m. – Presentation by the Corps and its partners

One of the three counties opposed to the removal of Dillsboro Dam, Macon County, recently announced that they will no longer fight the removal and are withdrawing from the pending litigation.  For the past few years, three North Carolina county governments have been delaying a dam removal, dam releases, river access area construction, trail building, riparian conservation, and other public benefits on the Tuckasegee and Nantahala rivers.  These beneficial actions were called for in the 2003 settlement agreement that AW

American Whitewater recently joined several organizations with an interest in stewardship and conservation of the Skykomish River Valley in requesting that Longview Timber refrain from road building or logging on key parcels in the Skykomish River valley. While we all use the products of the timber industry, we have identified specific parcels that have high value for recreational enjoyment, aesthetic value, and ecosystem services and which we believe should be protected in their undeveloped state. These lands include old-growth forest

One of the highlights of any Idaho river trip is the spectacular wildlife that paddlers glimpse on their way down the river.  An AW member recently shared with AW that the US Forest Service is currently considering the fate of one species of wildlife, bighorn sheep, in the infamous class III/IV Hells Canyon of the Snake.  Hells Canyon offers ideal rocky terrain for bighorn sheep to inhabit, and paddlers often marvel over bighorns’ almost supernatural coordination as they bound across

  Last Tuesday the Waterkeeper Alliance board of directors approved an application for a new riverkeeper for the Columbia, South Carolina area.  The riverkeeper will act as an advocate for the Saluda, Congaree, and Broad rivers.    Waterkeepers Alliance is a national organization that sanctions and supports individuals that form a local waterkeeper organization focused on monitoring and reducing pollution.  In this case, USC graduate student Alan Mehrzad  applied for the right to start a riverkeeper program in Columbia.  He

American Independence Mines and Minerals, Inc has proposed a large scale mining exploration operation 3 miles inside of the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness.  The mining operation would take place in the Big Creek watershed, which enters the Middle Fork Salmon at the beginning of Impassable Canyon.     The proposal would require vehicle passage for approximately 3 miles past the Wilderness boundary on an old roadbed that was converted to a trail decades ago. Vehicle access would require

The Sumter National Forest announced today that the final decision on recreation uses on the upper Wild and Scenic Chattooga River is under internal review and will not be released this month as planned. “Our timeline has slipped for several reasons,” said Jerome Thomas, forest supervisor for the Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests. “First, at the request of our constituents, we extended the public comment period on the pre-decisional Environmental Analysis (EA). We also received more than 3,000 individual

American Whitewater and various stakeholders have formed a Working Group in the Lower Dolores River Valley to update the 1990 US Bureau of Land Management’s Lower Dolores River Management Plan. The Working Group, which is organized by the Dolores River Dialogue, hopes to develop and evaluate alternatives to Wild and Scenic River designation on the Dolores below McPhee Dam, that can protect existing water rights and contractual obligations, while supporting the “Outstandingly Remarkable Values” that make the lower Dolores River

Yesterday the owner of Holtwood Dam on the Susquehanna River announced that they would not move forward with their plans to install additional generation capacity to their dam.  In a statement on their website, William H. Spence, executive vice president and chief operating officer of PPL Corporation stated: "As we evaluated this project in light of current economic conditions and projections of future energy prices, we reached the conclusion that it is no longer economically justifiable.”   PPL has spent