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Save rivers, get cool stuff! For 2010, we have a great Holiday Membership offer: for just $45 you get a regular one year membership with American Whitewater and our popular American Whitewater Logo t-shirt. We think it’s a great gift to give to a new boater, or heck, a great gift to give yourself! For someone else: Go to our Gift Membership page and fill out the fields as appropriate. Under “Membership Level” select “Holiday Membership – $45”. For yourself:

American Whitewater is excited to announce that we have a new Join or Renew and a new Donate form on our website!   These updated forms are much easier to use than our previous ones. We hope folks will find them attractive and easy to use. If you’ve ever had a problem Joining via the website or making a donation before, we hope you’ll try now. Thanks!   If you have any feedback or questions on Joining, Renewing or Donating, please

As an organization, American Whitewater has been quite fortunate to have a committed group of volunteer Board of Directors that provides the organization with high-level oversight and strategic direction. To sustain this healthy and vibrant board an effective process is in place to insure an appropriate transition of Directors over time. This transition process balances the need for fresh ideas with appropriate leadership continuity. Current American Whitewater members have the opportunity to elect Directors and approve changes to the AW

American Whitewater is pleased to announce that you can now purchase a Gift Membership on the AW website. With this new functionality, people can easily and clearly purchase a gift membership for a friend or loved one. We hope lots of river lovers out there will be inspired to get an AW membership for someone else. Share your love of rivers, and help us save them. Everyone wins.

Got a cool whitewater-related love story? Meet that special someone on the river? Nearly breakup teaching your significant other to boat (yikes!)? Whether it’s a cautionary tale of what not to do, or how you met your soulmate, we want you to submit your story and photos for our next edition of the American Whitewater Journal by Nov. 5th. Something tells us this could be a really cool issue!

Come celebrate and defend the Yough!  YOU are invited to the Youghiogheny Defense Party! This event benefits the Yough Defense Fund of the Mountain Watershed Association. Proceeds will help cover legal expenses incurred in challenging the proposed Curry Mine. Date:   Thursday November 18, 2010Place:  Falls City Pub (Wilderness Voyageurs) in OhiopyleTime:   5pm  Doors Open (drinks available)            6pm  Food starts  (heavy Hors d’oeuvres)            7pm  Music (short sets) and events start Party is open to the public !  It is not necessary to RSVP, but

All things must come to an end at some point. Such is the case with the well-known LVM DVD series (announcement). LVM has been a long time supporter of American Whitewater’s river stewardship work and has offered subscriptions at special rates to our members. As such, these AW member-only LVM subscriptions will only be available until Oct. 31st. LVM even donates $8 to AW for each subscription sold! However, you can only take advantage of this deal when you are

Now that the last Upper Yough releases are over its time to recognize a number of people who helped make access to the river work. Friendsville city councilman Jess Whittemore alerted us to various parking problems and the paddling community responded by doing the right thing. People in town noticed! Upstream, this is AW’s 10th year maintaining the Sang Run access, and many people helped out. Kurt Knuth and Bob Spangler each mowed the grass one for month. Paddling tree

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will increase and vary water flows in the Pit River in October to test and calibrate newly installed flow gates on the Pit 4 and Pit 5 dams in eastern Shasta County. Recreationists, anglers, boaters and others in the area are advised that river levels will vary between Monday, Oct. 4 and Tuesday, Oct. 26 in the reaches below the Pit 4 and Pit 5 dams.  PG&E will increase the flows to a maximum

American Whitewater received a letter from Georgia Power notifying us that the fall Tallulah releases are cancelled for 2010.   Back on August 21, a heavy rainfall occurred in Northeast Georgia that resulted in the lake reaching an elevation at which water was flowing over several dam gates. One of the gates broke in this event and the dam is currently under repair. Georgia Power estimates that it will take until the end of the year to complete the repair.

The 20th Annual Feather River Festival will coincide with the Rock Creek/Tobin scheduled releases on Saturday and Sunday, September 25 and 26, 2010. The fund-raiser event for American Whitewater is hosted by local paddling club, the Chico Paddleheads. 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 is available. FRIDAY, September 24th: New this year! Chico

Decades ago river outfitters and American Whitewater joined together to protect the Gauley River from hydro development. The success of these business enterprises were one of the key reasons that the river was protected as a National Recreation Area. But with success has come new challenges. Professional guides find the number of kayakers on the Upper Gauley overwhelming at times and kayakers also find the number of rafts intimidating. There can be problems in the larger rapids and miscalculations are

Gauley Fest is American Whitewater’s biggest fundraising event and the largest boater festival in the world. This year’s event was another great success raising a significant amount of money for AW’s river stewardship work. A huge thanks goes out to Subaru for being Gauley Fest’s title sponsor. Subaru has a long history as a favorite shuttle vehicle in the whitewater community, we’re glad they’ve chosen to add to this history via their support for Gauley Fest and American Whitewater. Thanks