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On Friday afternoon the Administration proposed the Forest Service’s largest public land sale in decades, listing 309,421 acres up for grabs to the highest bidder in more than 30 states. Over the next few weeks the Forest Service will be preparing maps to show the locations of the property which would become available for private ownership. See the accouncement of the Secure Rural Schools Forest Service FY 2007 Initiative. The proposed land sale is part of the President’s 2007 budget,

A Primer on Critical Incident Stress  “Stress, a ubiquitous part of life, results from the totality of all that humans experience. The decisions that people make both sharpen and dull stress. Stress is part of what makes people both alive and human.”             Dr. Stephen A Pulley, Emergency Room Physician, http://www.emedicine.com A critical incident is a relatively sudden, untimely and unanticipated event outside the range of normal human experience that evokes unusually strong emotional reactions. Extreme stress has long term

In a recent web posting, AW staff stated that we anticipated that Idaho Representative Bob Nonini would be introducing boat registration legislation. Representative Nonini has since contacted American Whitewater and stated that he had absolutely no intention of introducing such legislation, and would not support it if it were to be introduced. We respectfully offer our formal apologies to Representative Nonini, acknowledge that our statement was in error, and appreciate his support of our interests.

The Stop I-3 Coalition continues to make progress in keeping an interstate from being built through our magnificent Southern Appalachian Mountains and the Piedmont, but we need your help to affect further study of this ruinous highway. We are asking each of you on February 14 to send a postcard to J. Richard Capka, Acting Director Federal Highway Administration 400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20590. If you can not send a postcard that day, then please send a faxed

The Stop I-3 Coalition continues to make progress in keeping an interstate from being built through our magnificent Southern Appalachian Mountains and the Piedmont, but we need your help to affect further study of this ruinous highway. We are asking each of you on February 14 to send a postcard to J. Richard Capka, Acting Director Federal Highway Administration 400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20590. If you can not send a postcard that day, then please send a faxed

AW Accident Database Whitewater Deaths By State 1975-2005 Alabama 8 Alaska 17 Arizona 9 Arkansas 5 California 79 Colorado 77 Connecticut 5 Delaware 0 DC 0 Florida 0 Georgia 18 Hawaii 0 Idaho 41 Illinois 6 Indiana 6 Iowa 1 Kansas 2 Kentucky 5 Louisiana 0 Maine 10 Maryland 10 Massachusetts 6 Michigan 7 Minnesota 3 Mississippi 0 Missouri 2 Montana 18 Nebraska 0 Nevada 2 New Hampshire 11 New Jersey 12 New Mexico 10 New York 32 North Carolina

American Whitewater Accident Study Covering Non-Motorized Human Powered Craft 1995-1998  By Jennifer L. Plyler, Ph.D. Prologue It’s a bright sunny day. Two friends load an old aluminum canoe and head for the pastoral retreat of a local pond. The fishing poles are along for the ride. The faded orange horse-collar lifejackets will make great backrests as they bask in the sun. In another part of the country, a group of kayakers set a car shuttle. They’ve paddled this Class II-III

 WHITEWATER ACCIDENTS  THROUGH THE YEARS Reported to American Whitewater 1975-2005  Year Kayak & C-1 Open Canoe       Rafts (Com)(Priv)(I-K) Other Total 1975     1           1 1976              0 1977     1           1 1978     2           2 1979     1           1 1980     1           1 1981       1         1 1982     8    

The AW Accident Database has just been updated. It contains over 800 incidents occurring during the last 30 years. Accidents can be looked up by year, state, name, or date and are linked to the river where they occurred. The database also contains detailed accounts first published in the 1989-1999 editions of the River Safety Reports. These books, a joint project of American Whitewater and the American Canoe Association, are becoming difficult to find. Improvements to the American Whitewater Accident Database were

The AW Accident Database has just been updated. It contains over 800 incidents that occurred during the last 30 years. Accidents can be looked up by year and are linked to the river where they occurred. These database also features the detailed accounts that were first published in the 1989-1999 editions of the River Safety Reports. These books, a joint project of American Whitewater and the American Canoe Association, are becoming hard to find. Improvements to the American Whitewater Accident Database were

Laura Wittmann was the assistant to Jason Robertson, American Whitewater’s Access Director, from 1998 to 2000. Although whitewater boating fatalities have been getting increased attention in the last couple of years, the actual fatality rate for whitewater kayaking (2.9 in 1998 per 100,000 participants) is not as high as a few highly-publicized deaths would lead you to believe. In comparison with other sports, it is safer than scuba diving (3.5) and mountaineering (3.2). In fact, driving a car is arguably

Corps to hold Francis E. Walter Dam Flow Management Information Workshop and announce the 2006 plan PHILADELPHIA (Jan. 23, 2006) — The Corps of Engineers and its p artners the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and Delaware River Basin Commission, in their ongoing efforts to enhance recreation along the Lehigh River, will conduct a public information workshop to announce the 2006 Francis E. Walter Dam Flow Management Plan and discuss its implementation. The public

Corps to hold Francis E. Walter Dam Flow Management Information Workshop and announce the 2006 plan PHILADELPHIA (Jan. 23, 2006) — The Corps of Engineers and its partners, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and Delaware River Basin Commission, in their ongoing efforts to enhance recreation along the Lehigh River, will conduct a public information workshop to announce the 2006 Francis E. Walter Dam Flow Management Plan and discuss its implementation. The public is

Thanks to the ongoing efforts of our webmaster the AW Safety Database has a new look and feel. It is a lot easier to find information. Accidents can be looked up by name or year and each accident is linked to the river where it occurred. With help from AW Web Guru Matt Muir I am now"populating" the database with accident descriptions from the River Safety Reports. I have accident reports in digital form dating back to 1989 and hard copies dating back to 1974.