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February’s AW Volunteers of the Month are Ian McIntosh and Ron Lodders! photo of John Gangemi (blue) and Ian McIntosh (yellow) on West Rosebud For the past several years, Ian and Ron have been working as a team on the relicensing of the Mystic Lake Hydroelectric Project, located on West Rosebud Creek in Montana’s Beartooth Mountains.  The Mystic Lake relicensing has been especially challenging because it is among the first projects to use the new Integrated Licensing Process (as opposed to

We Love Taxes! That’s the new motto around American Whitewater these days. AW has partnered with Frontier Tax Solutions and will again be offering their Taxes2Charity program to the AW community for the 2006 tax season.       Taxes2Charity works by allowing any individual to prepare and file their federal and state tax returns online for just $39.95. Fifteen dollars of each return filed will be donated back to AW.     The Details: $15 for every return filed is

We Love Taxes! That’s the new motto around American Whitewater these days. AW has partnered with Frontier Tax Solutions and will again be offering their Taxes2Charity program to the AW community for the 2006 tax season.       Taxes2Charity works by allowing any individual to prepare and file their federal and state tax returns online for just $39.95. Fifteen dollars of each return filed will be donated back to AW.     The Details: $15 for every return filed is

United State Forest Service Cherokee National Forest Tellico River Clean-Up Day Spring is just around the corner and along with spring will come the 12th Annual Tellico River Clean Up on Saturday, March 11, 2006. Registration will begin at 8AM and lasts till 9:30AM at the Tellico Ranger Station as well as the Stateline Campground.  Last year’s clean up saw over 250 participants and nearly 2 tons of trash was collected along Tellico River, North River and in the Upper

United State Forest Service Cherokee National Forest Tellico River Clean-Up Day Spring is just around the corner and along with spring will come the 12th Annual Tellico River Clean Up on Saturday, March 11, 2006. Registration will begin at 8AM and lasts till 9:30AM at the Tellico Ranger Station as well as the Stateline Campground.  Last year’s clean up saw over 250 participants and nearly 2 tons of trash was collected along Tellico River, North River and in the Upper

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

The National Park Service is beginning the process of developing a new management plan for the New River Gorge.  New River paddlers are encouraged to participate in this process and share your concerns and interests regarding the management of the river and the gorge.  The open houses will begin with a brief presentation by the Park Superintendent, then followed by a short description of the GMP/Implementation planning process. Meeting attendees may then visit a series of information stations and be

  In the fall of 2005 paddlers from around the southeast converged in a small North Carolina mountain town of Robbinsville to paddle the very first releases on the Cheoah River.  American Whitewater began it’s work on the Cheoah River in 2000 and now six years later 2006 will bring a full schedule of 18 release days for the river.  American Whitewater invites you to come and celebrate the rebirth of a future southeastern whitewater classic, the Cheoah River.  To

U.S. SUPREME COURT SET TO HEAR LANDMARK STATES’ RIGHTS CASE WASHINGTON, DC – The hydropower industry is about to get its day in court in a Clean Water Act case before the U.S. Supreme Court this February. If the industry wins, rivers everywhere will lose. On February 21, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in S.D. Warren v. Maine Board of Environmental Protection. In this case, brought by a South African-owned paper company that owns several dams on Maine’s

What can bring top whitewater names like Jimmy Blakeney, Christie Dobson, Eric Jackson, Willie Kern, Tanya Shuman, and Clay Wright together united for one common goal?  Answer: American Whitewater’s new athlete ambassador program.  In 2006 American Whitewater launched its Athlete Ambassador Team, a core of whitewater paddlers who will publicly represent American Whitewater and reinforce its mission of preserving and restoring ’s whitewater resources.  AW sought out the leaders of the whitewater community to come forward and publicly promote and

Cleansweep for the Chattooga. January 29, 2006. 10 a.m. Highway 28 access on the Chattooga River. Saturday January 28th: Hike into the headwaters 9am:I am going in at Burrell’s Ford and planning on covering as much of the river as daylight will allow. I don’t want to take a large party into the headwaters. That is the reason for keeping this separate from the cleanup for the lower sections. There are a few spaces left in my group for this

In the fall of 2005 AW had a "House Party" in Atlanta, thanks to Mary Beth Kinney.  With Mary Beth leading the charge, the event turned out to be an enormous success.  She worked closely with Jeff Espy at Hooked on the Outdoors and the Atlanta paddling community came out in full force to support AW’s work.  From picking up the tables to putting out the food, MB was the key to making this a great social evening and a

The 39th annual Missouri Whitewater Championships will be held March 18-19, 2006. This event consists of slalom and downriver races with classes for all types of whitewater craft, age groups and skill levels. Boat classes range from expert glass slalom boats to a special K-1 Short class (under 8’6") to cater to today’s shorter boat designs. When: March 18-19, 2006. Where: St. Francis River, near Fredericktown, MO Hosted by the Missouri Whitewater Association. Sanctioned by the ACA. Website: http://missouriwhitewater.org/mwc.html (please

With temperatures hovering around freezing and a fresh blanket of snow, boaters converged on the Sultan River for a rare opportunity to paddle the bypass reach between Culmback Dam and the Jackson Powerhouse this past December. Pioneered by Northwest legends Bob Artis, Rolf Peterson, and others in the 1970’s the reach known as the Upper Sultan was a local favorite prior to enlargement of the dam in the early 1980’s which now “more efficiently” captures water and sends it down

This year, the Forest Service has an opportunity to acquire the Wild and Scenic White Salmon Hopper property along the White Salmon Wild and Scenic River. An appropriation of $280,000 from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) through the FY 2007 Interior Appropriations bill is needed to preserve this land. This parcel is located along the BZ Section of the White Salmon just downstream of Husum Falls and its preservation will protect the scenic qualities of this river corridor

January 3rd What:  Chattooga River Clean Up When:  January 29th at 11 a.m. Where: Highway 28 Access More Info:  Call Brian at 336-416-0487 From Brian (the organizer), Having been somewhat involved in the AW appeal to open the headwaters of the Chattooga (www.fs.fed.us/r8/fms for info and forum) I wanted to film the clean up needed in the lower sections of the headwaters and trail management. Then I realized that with this rationale I was being selfish, just like those wanting to continue