2015 Year-In-Review: Tremendous Victories for Rivers — American Rivers

Fog-filled Grand Canyon
Fog-filled Grand Canyon

From The River Blog (Nicole Duarte):

Nationwide, we removed 30 dams and restored 443 miles of rivers through dam removal or re-operation. We safeguarded 140 miles of rivers with new Wild and Scenic designations, and protected more than 447,000 acres of riverside lands…

Colorado River Basin

Focused national attention on development threats to the Colorado River’s Grand Canyon, naming it America’s Most Endangered River® of 2015…

Rivers Of The Northern Rockies

Mobilized more than 10,000 American Rivers members and supporters to contact Wyoming Governor Matt Mead, convincing him to abandon a proposal to build two new dams on the Upper Green River…

Rivers Of Puget Sound And The Columbia Basin

Achieved new Wild and Scenic River designations for more than 50 miles of rivers in Washington state — forever protecting the entire Pratt River as well as stretches of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River and Illabot Creek, a Skagit River tributary.

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