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| What is a River 2024: Chilcotin River Landslide, Dam & Breach | 25 Sep 2024 | 00:54:05 | |
In the summer of 2024, the Chilcotin River in British Columbia had a landslide that completely blocked the river creating a natural dam. For the next 6 days the river water backed up behind this dam until the waters finally worked over the top the of the landslide, creating a breach that would exceed the previous historical flows by 5 fold. 3 people share their experience and knowledge of the landslide in this episode.
TIME LAPSE IMAGES OF LANDSLIDE AND BREACH & other info on landslide YOU TUBE VIDEOS Short: "...helicopter view of landslide..." Short: "...building washed away..." "Water begins moving past landslide damming Chilcotin River" River Radius Instagram and Facebook has videos also.
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| Bats & Rabid Misinformation in the Grand Canyon | 20 Aug 2024 | 01:06:03 | |
Why have cases of reported bat encounters at the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon drastically increased in the last several years? What are the chances of contracting rabies from a bat encounter? How is the safety of helicopter crews wrapped up in the physical location of a bat encounter? What does the vaccination process look like? In this episode, we utilize the personal story of a river runner's bat bite in the Grand Canyon, the expert perspectives of 2 ecologists, a CDC rabies expert, and the woman who oversees Search and Rescue in the Grand Canyon to provide insight into that real bat encounter that played out in the fall of 2023.
Beppe Amodio
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2022
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| Atmospheric Rivers 101 | 05 Mar 2024 | 00:49:45 | |
Atmospheric Rivers are bands of water vapor in the sky, sometimes a few thousand miles long, bringing winter moisture to the west coast of North America and delivering it all the way to the Rocky Mountains. The Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes flies research planes above these storms all winter tracking the details and forecasting the coming storm and this episode hosts their director to learn about Atmospheric Rivers.
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| American Whitewater’s Top 10 River Stewardship Focus | 20 Feb 2024 | 01:04:18 | |
American Whitewater published their Top 10 List of Stewardship issues in January 2024. This is a mix of dam removal projects, legislation and policy pushes, Wild and Scenic options, all encompassed in the work from American Whitewater to keep rivers clean and accessible. This episode is an interview Kevin Colburn from American Whitewater learning about each river on this list and the positive end goals.
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| Queer River Guiding; 1 Professional’s Experience | 06 Feb 2024 | 00:51:22 | |
The river guiding and river running world are sometimes perceived as idyllic and welcoming. When is it something different? Our guest today is an openly gay man, and he share’s his story of working as a river guide and guide company manager for the past decade and how some of that is idyllic, and other parts are full of discrimination. SPONSORS AED ONE STOP SHOP THE RIVER RADIUS | |||
| The Mountain Hydrology Lab & Future River Flows | 23 Jan 2024 | 00:56:47 | |
The Mountain Hydrology Lab at West Virginia University has defined the density of whitewater river runs in the United States and cross referenced this data with how climate change will alter those flows, and how changes in river flows, to include low flows and floods, will impact the people living along those rivers. This episode talks at length with the Director of the Mountain Hydrology Lab, who is also a stout river kayaker, Associate Professor Nicolas Zegre about this work his students are doing, how West Virginia has the most dense collection of whitewater runs, and where students can gain excellent river based educations. EPISODE SPONSORS Denver Area Nissan Dealers
Nicolas “Nico” Zegre, Associate Professor Forest Hydrology A note from Prof. Nico Zegre about the research work:
ORGANIZATIONS FROM EPISODE Friends of the Cheat River Management Society River Studies & Leadership Certificate Climate Central Center For Resilient Communities Dylan Penick
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| Heart Attack on the River | 09 Jan 2024 | 01:02:34 | |
In the first episode of 2024, a commercial river guide tells his story of having a massive heart attack while guiding a trip in May of 2023 on the South Fork of the American River in California. This episode is recorded with an audience of river guides and outfitters. Beyond the story is the question of the role of AEDs in commercial river guiding.
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| Heather Hansman & Teal Lehto: Conversations on their Craft & Conservation | 13 Dec 2023 | 00:56:00 | |
There are numerous authors and media professionals doing work to explore river topics. To close out the 2023 river and podcast year, this episode hosts two of the best. Heather Hansman is an author writing books and magazine articles. Teal Lehto, a.k.a., “Western Water Girl” is a social media content creator. We talk through their respective crafts, leadership in river conservation and trending topics. SPONSORS
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| Klamath 2: The Next Generation of Paddle Tribal Waters | 05 Dec 2023 | 00:46:52 | |
The Klamath River 2nd episode. In the Spring of 2025, a group of teenagers from several Tribal Nations of the Klamath River Basin and greater region will descend the newly undammed Klamath River from source to sea. These teens began learning how to kayak in 2022 and 2023, began learning about river policy and fish science, and are bringing their family stories to the river with them. In the summer of 2023 The River Radius spent a week with these young paddlers on the water and on the microphone capturing their story. SPONSORS
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| Klamath 1: The Origin of Paddle Tribal Waters | 28 Nov 2023 | 01:03:45 | |
After 100 years of dams stagnating the flows of the Klamath River and killing the Salmon runs, a group of teenagers from the tribal nations of the Klamath Basin will paddle the Klamath from source to sea to usher in the post-dam Klamath. In this 1st of 2 episodes on the topic, the founders of Rios to Rivers & Paddle Tribal Waters explain how their own paddle experiences and time travel, brought the inception of this powerful passage.
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| Payson Kennedy | 08 Nov 2023 | 00:55:36 | |
Payson Kennedy at 39 was a career academic, and with his wife Aurelia had four kids, a house, and two cars in Atlanta. After working on the stunt team for the film Deliverance in 1971 and a summer running a raft company, he and his wife decided to leave it all behind and with a good friend, started the Nantahala Outdoor Center. Today, 50 years later, the Nantahala Outdoor Center is one of the most important and successful river guide operations and instruction schools in the river world.
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| What is a River 2023 | 25 Oct 2023 | 00:52:52 | |
Our 3rd Annual episode of "What is a River" comes to you from a plane flying above the flooded Yampa River Valley in northwest Colorado. In May 2023, River Radius host Sam Carter joined two geomorphologists and a hometown river guide to fly above the Yampa River when it peaked at 20,000 cfs. This flight and episode learns about the deep value of an un-dammed, free flowing river spreading its waters across the flood plains and pounding down deep sandstone canyons. EPISODE IMAGE SPONSORS GUESTS Kim Lennberg
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| Sexual Harassment in River Guide Culture | 23 Jul 2024 | 01:11:11 | |
Working as a commercial river guide is one of the best jobs, day after day on rivers, helping people enjoy rivers, seeing beauty, having fun, chasing adrenaline. Creating incredible friendships, some of which might last a lifetime. And there can be a dark layer. Sexual Harassment continues to percolate, as it does in many places, in the layers of river guide culture. This episode goes there and learns about sexual harassment in the river guiding culture. We talk with Dr Maria Blevins, long time river guide, who has conducted research on this topic. We hear from guide warehouse and staff manager, Bryant Baker, about how he is working to eliminate sexual harassment from the company he manages. And we talk with Respect Outside and Jim Miller to gain clarity about sexual harassment definitions, when sexual harassment is assault, how and why it percolates in river guiding, and resources available for guide companies to shake free of sexual harassment. Denver Area Nissan Dealers Over It Raft Covers
GUESTS Dr Maria Blevins EEOC
Men's Journal: Rough Water: A River Guide Tells Her Side of the Story High Country News: Grand Canyon park's 15 year failure on sexual harassment Outside Magazine: Hostile Environment Huffpost: Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream US Dept of Interior: Investigative Report of Misconduct at the Grand Canyon River District
SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSUALT IN ROCK CLIMBING New York Times: Rock Climber Gets Life in Prison for Sexual Assault Safe Outside / American Alpine Club
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| Native Teen Guide In Training Program | 11 Oct 2023 | 01:02:15 | |
The Native Teen Guide in Training Program held its 12th year of training teenagers from various tribal nations how to work as river guides. This year was the first year that the guide staff for this program was all Indigenous. The River Radius joined the NTGIT program at the boat ramp, campground and river warehouse to hear this story.
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| Lessons Learned from the Lost River | 19 Sep 2023 | 00:50:58 | |
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GUESTS Scott Armstrong with All Outdoors
EPISODE CONTENT RESOURCES Restoring the Stanislaus River THE RIVER RADIUS | |||
| Gauley River, West By God Virginia | 12 Sep 2023 | 00:58:31 | |
SPONSORS Denver Area Nissan Dealers Over It Raft Covers GUESTS David Brown American Whitewater Animal Upper Gauley Race Dylan Pennick OTHER INFO Gauley River
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| The Last River Lost | 22 Aug 2023 | 00:52:38 | |
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| Cleaning the Urban South Platte River | 09 Aug 2023 | 01:21:04 | |
The South Platte River runs right through downtown Denver and as you might imagine, this river catches a lot of trash. There are hordes of people who clean this river several times a year and have been doing so for 17 years. Today this clean up is led by Protect Our Rivers, and the South Platte is lined up for a $350 million dollar upgrade. This is a story of urban river people and the river they love.
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Will and Harriet’s clean up
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| Re-issue: History of the Groover | 18 Jul 2023 | 01:03:05 | |
Have been using a groover this summer? Have you cleaned one....or need to clean one? This episode is a Re-issue of our "History of the Groover" episode from 2021. For many overnight river trips, the groover has become as common a tool as the PFD. Where did this groover come from, and why is a portable river toilet called a groover. This episode finds the people who were there 50 years ago when the need for the groover emerged, and when the groover itself was created.
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Helen Howard Jeff Ingram Steven Carothers LuVerne Grussing MORE CONTENT “Picking the Best River Toilet” from RiverBent. “They call me Groover Boy” by Kevin Fedarko, a story of carrying the groovers on commercial river trips in the Grand Canyon. “Your guide to the Groover” by OARS.
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| Fill Lake Powell | 11 Jul 2023 | 01:09:45 | |
While many river runners see Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam as the leading threat to the Colorado River overall and to the Grand Canyon, there is a voice that wants to keep Lake Powell in place and full of water. To understand this viewpoint and reasoning, this episode explores this topic with the BlueRibbon Coalition and Powellheadz. This episode is the companion to our recent publication of “Glen Canyon is Again Being Submerged Under Lake Powell.”
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High Flow Experiment National Park Service Mandalorian / Star Wars at Lake Powell Navajo Generating Station THE RIVER RADIUS | |||
| Fires & Floods | 27 Jun 2023 | 01:00:03 | |
Is there a relationship between forest fire scars, floods and debris flows? This episode will explore landscapes denuded by fire and these massive storms creating floods in the fire scar zone. Is this a normal pattern? A new pattern? Coincidence? And how does understanding this correlation further our relationship with these changing landscapes? This episode explores these questions and more through the tools of western science, personal narrative, and traditional ecological knowledge. SPONSORS
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| Glen Canyon is Again Being Submerged Under Lake Powell | 16 Jun 2023 | 01:10:26 | |
Glen Canyon was home to the flowing Colorado River until 1963 when Glen Canyon Dam closed its gates creating Lake Powell. Over the past few years, water in Powell has dropped to levels not seen since the 1960s. The River Radius went onto Lake Powell and up into the canyons to see what has returned in these canyons as they restore to their pre Powell eco-systems and to ask the questions of what is next for Powell and Glen Canyon. Guests are the Glen Canyon Institute and Eric Balken.
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Econ Report for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Lake Powell Real Time and Historical Data
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| River Guide Unions | 30 May 2023 | 00:51:06 | |
An exploration of unions in river guiding. Why aren’t they common? Why do some guides want them? A guide forms a union. One outfitter assesses the viability of unions on multi-day rivers. A guide turned outfitter on the Ocoee River provides healthcare to her guides. A boater turned insurance agent teaches provides healthcare insurance to river guides.
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EPISODE GUESTS: Contributing Host Greg Cairns BC Rimbeaux Dustin Ahern @idahoriveradventures Sara Beth @oarafting Carrie Soulliere On Facebook
Article about Executive Order to Raise Federal Minimum Wage for Contract Workers
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| Part 2: Kevin Fedarko Live | 25 Jun 2024 | 01:18:20 | |
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| 2023 Western Snowpack & River Flow | 11 May 2023 | 01:05:42 | |
As spring melt begins to fill rivers in the Western United States, the anticipation is high for big water runoff this season because of the long snowy winter. The River Forecast Centers of the National Weather Service provide forecasting for river flows across the country. This episode talks with the 3 of the Western Forecast Centers to learn about the snowpack and the coming river flows for spring of 2023.
EPISODE CONTENT LINKS 13 River Forecast Centers National Oceanic Administrative Association United States Geologic Survey Streamflow Data
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| 10 Rivers for 2023 | 18 Apr 2023 | 00:55:38 | |
Every year since 1984, American Rivers has released a report called America's Most Endangered Rivers. To be highlighted by this report, rivers must have significance to human and natural communities, face consequential threat, and have an upcoming major decision that the public can help influence. This episode is an interview with Sinjin Eberle and Amy Souers Kober on what makes this report an effective river conservation tool, the most endangered rivers of 2023, and tangible actions that we as listeners can do to engage with the most endangered rivers of 2023.
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| American Rivers | 28 Mar 2023 | 00:43:03 | |
American Rivers celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year. Founded in 1973, American Rivers is a national level river conservation organization. To understand how they see the future of rivers, we interviewed their Executive Director to hear his story and what American Rivers is focusing on in the next few decades. ADVERTISING SPONSORS NISSAN DENVER AREA DEALERS
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| River LNT | 21 Mar 2023 | 00:47:36 | |
River corridors are the conduits of water and beauty. And so many of us treasure our time there. How do we best leave it untrammeled? Two experts on River Leave No Trace (LNT) join me to talk through the LNT philosophy.
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| The Shocking Details of River Lightning | 14 Mar 2023 | 00:58:08 | |
Is it true that lightning can’t strike in the Grand Canyon? How far can lightning travel through water? If it does strike, where is the safest place to be? This episode explores lightning from scientific and risk management perspectives. Grounding theory through personal narratives and best practices, this episode is a tool for any river runner’s stormy trips.
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John Belz's Undergraduate Seminar Power Point (it loads but real slow, and its super cool) Video: "ROCKET-TRIGGERED LIGHTNING" from University of Florida
JOHN GOOKIN, NOLS, NOAA John Gookin's research paper, "BACKCOUNTRY LIGHTNING RISK MANAGEMENT" John Gookin's NOAA Brochure RESOURCES Lightning Safety Brochure: https://www.weather.gov/media/owlie/backcountry_lightning.pdf THE RIVER RADIUS | |||
| Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls | 07 Mar 2023 | 00:56:20 | |
Running waterfalls in rafts is not overly common, but some rafters do it. Tony Glassman and his river crew built a film about running waterfalls that eventually lead to people following their lead, but not following their path of gaining experience and skills. Tony explains the layers of training and safety and experience and communication that he and his river crew have worked through to become competent waterfall running rafters. ADVERTISING SPONSORS
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| Tools for the River Guide | 02 Mar 2023 | 00:49:10 | |
River Guides have a great life working on rivers, guiding people down fun and beautiful rivers. But what makes that life hard? How do River Guides deal with stress? Responder Alliance is building tools for River Guides and OARS, an outfitter, is putting the tools to work with their River Guides.
GUESTS Brooke Edwards ENDLESS SUMMER EPISODES
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| Hayley Stuart: kayaker, film maker, storyteller, river advocate | 31 Jan 2023 | 01:08:12 | |
Hayley Stuart learned to kayak while attending an international traveling high school. Today she works with indigenous river communities in South America to prevent dams from changing their rivers into reservoirs. She is teaching these river communities to kayak, building films about this work, attends the United Nations COP meetings as a linguistics translator working to UnDam the UN, and recently earned a Masters from Oxford University in water science, policy and management.
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| American Whitewater | 10 Jan 2023 | 00:49:41 | |
American Whitewater is one of the oldest whitewater clubs in the United States, has become the club of clubs and is a modern leader in access to whitewater rivers and river conservation. Recently the leadership at American Whitewater shifted as Mark Singleton stepped down after 18 years, and Clinton Begley became the Executive Director. We talk with both Mark and Clinton to learn about AW, their history and their future. ADVERTISING SPONSOR AMERICAN WHITEWATER RIVER RADIUS PODCAST THE RIVER RADIUS | |||
| Kanawha Falls Rescue 2020 | 27 Dec 2022 | 01:18:06 | |
In September of 2020 at Kanawha Falls in West Virginia, a river rescue at midnight occurred and was given an award and labeled the “Midnight Miracle.” A group of 13 kayakers and rafters responded late that night to a facebook post about a lone kayak floating at the falls. At the 2 year anniversary of the rescue, we went with the rescued kayaker when he ran the falls again for the first time since his rescue. He and the rescue crew tell the story.
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| Part 1: Kevin Fedarko Live | 25 Jun 2024 | 01:10:54 | |
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| Source to Sea Conservation River Trips | 06 Dec 2022 | 00:49:36 | |
Source to Sea expeditions come with a myriad of missions. This episode explores how to leverage source to sea river expeditions for conservation. Source to Sea expert Danielle Katz breaks down the types of impacts that source to sea expeditions can have, how long expeditions take to plan, and what this kind of undertaking demands from a team.
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| Part 1: Green Race 2022 | 18 Nov 2022 | 01:10:42 | |
For the past 27 years in November, class 5 kayakers have assembled at the Green River in North Carolina for the Green Race. And a couple thousand hardy spectators hike the miles down to cheer on these rowdy kayakers. In these two episodes we tell the story of the race and we meet two of the women racing. One has won the race 12 times. The other is a first time racer, and an Olympic kayaker. Come mad bomb the Green River with us.
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GREEN RACE ARTICLES Boofing the Green (Read this one!!!) 15 Things You Didn’t Know About the Green Race The Secret History of the Green
GREEN RACE VIDEOS Sparkle Princess (Watch this one!!!)
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| Part 2: Green Race 2022 | 18 Nov 2022 | 00:51:45 | |
For the past 27 years in November, class 5 kayakers have assembled at the Green River in North Carolina for the Green Race. And a couple thousand hardy spectators hike the miles down to cheer on these rowdy kayakers. In these two episodes we tell the story of the race and we meet two of the women racing. One has won the race 12 times. The other is a first time racer, and an Olympic kayaker. Come mad bomb the Green River with us.
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GREEN RACE ARTICLES Boofing the Green (Read this one!!!) 15 Things You Didn’t Know About the Green Race The Secret History of the Green
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| Endless Summer 3: Guiding with a Healing Intention | 26 Oct 2022 | 00:47:39 | |
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| Endless Summer 2: A Guide's Sunset | 26 Oct 2022 | 00:51:45 | |
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| Endless Summer 1: The Guide Life | 26 Oct 2022 | 01:04:05 | |
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| Project RAFT | 20 Sep 2022 | 00:33:08 | |
In the late 1980s, a group of river boaters from the United States reached out to river boaters in the Soviet Union, modern day Russia. And they began an international river running friendship called Project RAFT; Russians & Americans For Teamwork. Big volume rivers of Siberia and the Altai Mountains. Friendships that are still intact today.
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| 50 Episodes; 8 Follow Up Stories | 08 Sep 2022 | 00:56:29 | |
Our 1st episode published in 2019 and in September of 2022, we hit the 50th episode. The River Radius has covered 50 rivers, 21 states and 12 countries. Here we have 8 short follow up interviews from 8 of those episodes to learn what is happening in those ongoing river stories.
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| Dignity of Risk | 24 Aug 2022 | 00:54:21 | |
Is there a right associated with being able to float down a river and to engage in that joy and risk? What happens when life circumstances create barriers to accessing risk? The National Ability Center (NAC) is a river rafting outfit that focuses on developing access to rivers for all people. We spent a day this summer running a river with NAC and their boats full of participants learning about access.
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| What is a River 2022 | 11 Aug 2022 | 00:59:15 | |
What is a River? What is in there, at the micro level? How does water move from the Earth’s surface through the ground, in and out of rivers? How much of the water on the planet is in rivers and how long is it there? This episode of What is a River is our annual episodic interview with an expert in their field. Dr Rebecca Neumann is a professor and researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle where she focuses on Hydrobiogeochemistry.
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| 2024 Snowpack & Riverflow | 14 May 2024 | 01:04:27 | |
As snow is melting and running down rivers across the US, this episode talks with hydrologists at 5 regions of the National River Forecast Center to gain perspectives on how much snow and rain fell over the winter and how it will melt and what the rivers will look like this spring and summer. We focus on the Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, California, some of Nevada, and the Colorado River Basin.
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| Ben Knight: River Films & Being Dad | 19 Jul 2022 | 00:58:12 | |
Ben Knight builds powerful films with his partner at Felt Soul Media. DAMNATION, RED GOLD, IN CURRENT, and now LEARNING TO DROWN. In the past few years, Ben also became a father. In this episode Contributing Host Greg Cairns talks with Ben about the inside of his life, some of the process of creating his films, and his path of becoming a powerful filmmaker. And, his daughter. TODAY'S ADVERTISING SPONSORS Nissan and the Denver Area Nissan Dealers
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| Salmon 3: Fighting Salmon Extinction Real Time | 07 Jul 2022 | 00:52:51 | |
The Grand Salmon Source to Sea crew is paddling just shy of 1000 miles following the Snake River Basin Spring Summer Chinook Salmon from the mountains of Idaho to the Pacific Ocean. These 4 women launched in April of this spring and are now nearing the west coast. Youth Salmon Protectors is a dedicated group of 2000 young people of the Pacific Northwest. Both of these groups are working to bring attention and action to the Chinook Salmon as they near extinction. This episode is interviews with 6 members of these 2 groups. SEN MURRAY & GOV INSLEE REPORT AND COMMENT OPTION
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| Salmon 2: Big Dam Problems & Solutions | 21 Jun 2022 | 01:12:01 | |
The River Radius went to Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River to learn about that dam. How do Salmon get around the Lower 4 Snake River Dams? How are the dams impacting the salmon returns? What does breach mean? What are the proposals on the table right working to avoid Salmon extinction? How do tribal treaty rights impact the salmon outcome?
GUESTS Jay Hesse, Director of Biological Services, Fisheries Resource Management, Nez Perce Tribe US Congressman Mike Simpson, 2nd District of Idaho Vice Chairman Shannon Wheeler, Nez Perce Tribe
SEN MURRAY & GOV INSLEE REPORT AND COMMENT OPTION
ARTILCES The Lewiston Tribune article on Murray Inslee Report Seattle Times article on Murray Inslee Report Tribe Taking helm at Dworshak Hatchery
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| Salmon 1: Mountain Origins | 21 Jun 2022 | 00:52:19 | |
Chinook Salmon of the Snake River begin their lives in mountains of Idaho’s rivers, live their lives in the Pacific Ocean, and return to their natal spawning stream in Idaho. This fish is on the brink of extinction. This is the summer when all pressure is focused on maintaining this fish that is millions of years old. This is the first of 2 episodes about this Chinook Salmon.
GUESTS Dr Helen Neville, Trout Unlimited Vice Chairman Shannon Wheeler, Nez Perce Tribe Russ Thurow, Fish Biologist, US Forest Service
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ARTILCES The Lewiston Tribune article on Murray Inslee Report Seattle Times article on Murray Inslee Report “Second Coming” by David James Duncan
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