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Help protect rivers in Western North Carolina!  On Thursday, July 10, 2014, the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests will be hosting a meeting at the Crowne Plaza Resort in Asheville to solicit public input on their current Forest Planning effort.  From 11:30am to 1pm there will be an opportunity to visit a Wild and Scenic Rivers information station and share your comments.  During Forest Planning the agency will update their list of rivers on the National Forests they deem "eligible"

This year is IRIE Rafting Company's 20th Anniversary and July 9th is also Frank, the founders, 50th Birthday. Frank has always felt IRIE needed to give back to the community and the environment. Over the past 20 years IRIE has done just that through their benefit days and by offering very discounted rafting trips for under privileged guests.  This time around on Wednesday July 9th, IRIE will give all proceeds from their half day Truckee River trips and proceeds from

The Town of Friendsville, MD asks that everyone running the Upper Yough on Friday and Saturday over 4th of July weekend park in the field next to the liquor store just off Maple Avenue; this is the site of the parking lot that will be developed later this summer. Your cooperation will help reduce congestion in town. Please enter the lot from the main road. Don't forget to stay clear of residential areas along Water Street and Morris Avenue unless

In July you can help keep our rivers flowing just by sharing your summer adventure photos on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram! For every photo Tweeted, posted to Instagram or publicly posted to Facebook with the tag #MeetTheMoment, CLIF Bar will donate $1 to American Whitewater. You're already sharing your summer fun photos with friends. Add #MeetTheMoment for an easy way to support American Whitewater's work to restore and protect the rivers you enjoy! Everyone that uses Facebook, Twitter or Instagram

The Northwest Power and Conservation Council (Council) is currently accepting public comment about important river protections that impact freely flowing rivers throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho and parts of Montana. Hydropower developers have sought to weaken these protections, and we encourage you to speak up for freely flowing rivers throughout the Pacific Northwest today!    In May, the Council released its Draft Amended Fish and Wildlife Program, which covers a wide range of issues relating to fish and wildlife in the

Earlier this month we joined a diverse group of stakeholders for a paddle down the Upper Colorado river – through the roadless section between Catamount and Pinball – to appreciate the mighty river, and the almost-final success of a preservation plan for its long-term flows. Flows were high, which gave us a chance to appreciate just what a lot of water does for riparian vegetation, and also how important it is to have more stream gauges that help us understand

American Whitewater’s affiliate group, The Friends of the Yampa, has been organizing multi day Yampa River Awareness Project raft trips down the Yampa Canyon since 2006. The idea of bringing together paddlers, river advocates, politicians, photographers, videographers and the press was born out of a major threat to the Yampa’s flows some 8 years ago. “Since the first YRAP trip in 2006, this semi-annual float trip has become somewhat of an institution”, says Soren Jespersen, acting president of the Friends

Submit your best photos for American Whitewater's annual calendar! When The deadline is August 1st, 2014. How Via our online submission form. Images must be submitted as high-resolution files (suitable for printing up to 10") for inclusion in the calendar, without monetary compensation. Maximum 10 photo entries per person. Who Any and all photographers, from professionals to complete novices. Have you taken a photo before? Then you're ready. Why First, you'll get a free copy of the calendar if your

Earlier this month, Colorado Governor Hicklenooper vetoed a great water conservation and river protection bill.  After a year of work by a diverse coalition of farmers, water providers and conservationists across the state to reach a compromise to address the state’s water woes, Hickenlooper reversed course and killed the bill. Yes, Governors veto bills all the time. So what’s the big deal? From AW’s perspective, this is a major missed opportunity, and a very disappointing harbinger of things to come

Throughout the rest of 2014, American Whitewater will be working hard across the country to protect and restore the rivers that you love, and ensure that the public can enjoy them safely. As you'll see in our 2014 Summer Appeal, we've got our work cut out for us, from the Department of Energy's recent call to build dams across 3 million river and stream reaches across the country, to our key projects addressing the impacts of the drought in California,

  The 23rd Annual Feather River Festival (CA) will be held during scheduled releases on the Feather River September 26-28, 2014. The Feather River Festival is the second largest American Whitewater fund-raising event in the country! The benefit event will be held at "Indian Jim School" campground located two miles upstream from the small town of Tobin and one mile upstream from Tobin Vista. Free camping and ample parking will be available. This year's Feather Fest will continue the tradition of a

Jamie McEwan, the whitewater canoe racer whose skill inspired a generation of paddlers, lost his battle with cancer on Sunday, June 14th. He was 61. In 1972 Jamie, then 19, won a bronze medal in C-1 Slalom at the Olympic games in Munich, Germany. That medal, the first won by an American, inspired many younger paddlers (including several future medalists) to train hard and become champions. Twenty years later, he teamed up with partner Lecky Haller to finish 4th in