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It’s that time of year, time to start shopping for your holiday gift giving, and why not get a little something for yourself while you’re at it?For a limited time offer, Lotus Designs will be including a Lotus Designs T-shirt, cap and sticker free with all pruchases of the AW Sherman PFD, and all the while, AW will still recieve $50 of your purchase!So why not stop by http://www.patagonia.com/ for your holiday shopping needs and support American Whitewater in the process.

Clif Bar and AW team up to promote river stewardship and safety efforts in paddling clubs. American Whitewater and Clif Bar are pleased to announce the 4th annual Clif Bar Flowing Rivers Campaign, pledging $2,500 to American Whitewater Affiliate Clubs for river stewardship work. Funding for this very effective program is provided by Clif Bar. Clubs have the opportunity to apply for one of five (5) $500 grants. Grants will be distributed to clubs for projects that promote river stewardship,

Clif Bar and AW team up to promote river stewardship and safety efforts in paddling clubs. American Whitewater and Clif Bar are pleased to announce the 4th annual Clif Bar Flowing Rivers Campaign, pledging $2,500 to American Whitewater Affiliate Clubs for river stewardship work. Funding for this very effective program is provided by Clif Bar. Clubs have the opportunity to apply for one of five (5) $500 grants. Grants will be distributed to clubs for projects that promote river stewardship,

Thanks to support from Graham County Travel and Tourism http://www.grahamcountytravel.com/ and Tapoco Lodge, http://www.tapocolodge.com/ the fund raising event and party on Saturday April 8th was a huge success. Graham County was a partner in the event and provided the band. Tapoco Lodge was our venue for the evening and hosted us in fine southern style. Water for the weekend was an outcome of our five year negotiation process. A special thank you goes to AW members who came through in

The Hydropower Reform Coalition and the National Park Service are proud to release "Flows and Recreation: A Guide to Studies for River Professionals." The guide consolidates cutting-edge instream flow science for recreation on regulated rivers.  It updates and supplements the National Park Service 1993 guide, "Instream Flows for Recreation: A Handbook on Concepts and Research Methods."  Thirteen years later, however, our guide is in full color with illustrative photos and graphs. Written by leading recreational flow scientists Doug Whittaker of

Over the last month the public has had an opportunity to comment on the issues of importance as Snohomish PUD and City of Everett initiate planning for studies that are required as part of relicensing of the Jackson Hydroelectric Project on the Sultan River. We want to thank all those who participated in public meetings and filed written comments. Major issues of interest that appeared in the majority of comments including those filed by American Whitewater included fishery and aquatic

Culminating a five year effort, American Whitewater signed the settlement agreement for the Oroville Project on the Feather River in California. This Settlement Agreement amongst 50 State and Federal Agencies, local governments, tribes, and non- government organizations will provide an array of recreational and environmental benefits to the area in and around the project. Dave Steindorf, California Stewardship Director for American Whitewater, speaking about the agreement said, “ Whitewater Paddlers and all river recreationist should be pleased and surprised what

Each fall and spring paddlers from around the country flock to the southeast for the opportunity to run the Tallulah River in northern .  Joan Hutton makes these Tallulah releases possible by working with local river clubs to organize amazing volunteers to help the park administer these releases. Last fall Joan stepped forward to work with AW’s affiliate clubs in the Southeast to make sure that Tallulah Gorge State Park had the necessary manpower to run the recreational releases.  Each

Culminating a five year effort, American Whitewater signed the settlement agreement for the Oroville Project on the Feather River in California. This Settlement Agreement amongst 50 State and Federal Agencies, local governments, tribes, and non- government organizations will provide an array of recreational and environmental benefits to the area in and around the project. Dave Steindorf, California Stewardship Director for American Whitewater, speaking about the agreement said, � Whitewater Paddlers and all river recreationist should be pleased and surprised what

The Cheoah River once again roars back to life this weekend with its first weekend release of the 06 season and AW is getting ready to celebrate.  April 8th American Whitewater is hosting a party on the banks of the river at Tapoco Lodge. The evening starts with a sold out fundraising dinner and continues with a river revival party in the Quanset Hut of Tapoco Lodge. The evening will feature film premiers of Wave Sport’s new promotional film, YGP’s

UPDATE on April 2 The budget that emerged from the conference committee included the $405,000 for EPD’s portion of the cost of operating the streamgages for fiscal 2006.  No guarantees, but it appears the Governor will sign the budget into law. In short, it appears the streamgages are safe for the moment. Further efforts to eliminate the funding may arise in the future and require ongoing monitoring. A special thank you to those of you that provided comments on this