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From the heart of the Cascades, dear friends Leah and Russ have started an apparel line at Colchuck. Is there anything that this river power couple can't do? I'm loving their river snorkeling shirt, featuring custom artwork by Washington State's Casey Underwood. And, don't forget to follow River Snorkeling and explore your local rivers!
What a great way to honor Dick Goin on what would have been his 85th birthday.
On August 1st, I headed to NPR-WCAI for an interview with Heather Goldstone, science editor and the host of Living Lab.
Read and listen to the piece HERE
Happy birthday, Dick Goin.
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At Konsonant Music in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, producer/director Jennifer Galvin, film composer Gil Talmi, and sound designer Gisela Fulla-Silvestre talked about their audio-visual collaboration.
Read the full interview HERE.
Global Oneness Project produced a lesson plan for high school and college students. "Lesson Plan: Reclaiming Rivers" examines the state of rivers in the world today and explores ways to reclaim them. They've also included a great piece – Rivers and Stories – by Robert Haas.
You can download a PDF of the lesson plan here.
Pink Salmon fry. Photo by Eiko Jones.
Dick Goin said, "A river, it doesn’t want to be tethered, it wants to run around, it wants to be sinuous." Here's a great visual example of just that: an aerial time-lapse of a river in Peru meandering over 25 years. Many rivers can't move like this anymore due to the construction of dams, levees, roads, railways and houses.
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The National Park Service turns 100 in 2016! There are 58 national parks in the US and the Elwha River flows through one of them – Olympic National Park.
Yes, I see where your head is going. It still seems crazy, right? The Glines Canyon Dam on Elwha was in a national park.
Let's celebrate the last 100 years by looking to the next century of conservation. The National Park Service invites you to find your park and discover the national parks and programs in your own backyard at FindYourPark.com
Artist Jill Pelton connects the dots between salmon and glaciers. Climate change was something that Dick wrote about in his journals and worried about a lot. A warming planet changes how rivers and streams flow, making conditions stressful for salmon with lower water levels and warmer water.
The Elwha River runs from the Olympic Mountains northward into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. These satellite images by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) show Elwha from above. The removal of Elwha's two dams would be the largest dam removal in US history and the biggest controlled sediment release. The Elwha and Glines Canyon dams trapped an estimated 19 million cubic meters of sediment. Researchers say that's enough dirt to fill 11 football fields the height of the Empire State Building.
The New York Public Library has released an incredible digital collection available for public use. A search for 'salmon' led to some gems.
American Rivers works to protect the legacy of healthy, wild rivers. We're proud to have them as an organizational partner with The Memory of Fish. Spend some time on their site and learn how to take action for rivers. American Rivers provides information on dams and dam removal here.
This classic photo is by Mikal Jakubal, the activist who painted a crack and the words "ELWHA BE FREE" on the Elwha Dam in 1987.
Photo: Mikal Jakubal
This is an awesome visualization by Nelson Minar of all rivers in the US. The rivers really do look like veins running through the human body. Read more about Minar's river mapping work here. The map is available in interactive vector-based form and in high-resolution images. Dive in!
Don't forget to check out the growing list of people working hard for healthy rivers on our Good Stuff page. You'll also find a list of suggested films to watch, including one of the earliest about the Elwha River -- Unconquering the Last Frontier (2000) that tells the story of the Elwha River's dams and the struggle for the Klallam Tribe to survive in their shadow.
