American Rivers

Calling California locals! 📢 Join us at the 2026 FlyFest starting this Thursday where the fly fishing community comes together to learn, connect, and experience the sport at its best. Come check out our booth! 🎣

📆 Event details: https://www.flyfishersinternational.org/flyfest

? 🌿 As a tributary in a river basin that supplies drinking water to over 15 million people, Philadelphia’s Cobbs Creek is part of a critical network of water and recreational areas:

Cobbs Creek Restoration Project Running along Philadelphia’s western boundary, Cobbs Creek flows through a densely developed urban landscape of rowhomes and commercial and industrial facilities before emptying into Darby Creek and then the Delaware River. As a tributary in a river basin that supplies drinking water to over 15 mi...

American Rivers recently hosted an exciting photography walk along Cobbs Creek in Western Philadelphia, PA!

Led by Sean Riddick of Mini Studio in Philadelphia, neighbors gathered to discover and photograph Cobbs Creek and its surrounding trails and woodlands where we saw lots of natural beauty and evidence of a resilient ecosystem in the midst of the developed city.

We are a month into the restoration of Forni Meadow in California's Sierra Nevada with U.S. Forest Service - Eldorado National Forest and it's looking great! 🌾👏

We’ve installed beaver dam analogs, along with other structures across the meadow to prepare for the wet season. Healthy meadows = healthy rivers!

The ultimate test is whether the Bureau of Reclamation's new guidelines, alongside agreements and management tools needed to support them, function as intended – and whether, together, they can keep this lifeline for people and wildlife upright:

What's next for the Colorado River? For more than the last century, the flows of the Colorado River have been managed and dictated by the demands of a rapidly growing and changing West.

“More than them?” Be so for real.

Have many loves in this life. River wildlife's simply at the top of the list...🤷🦦🐻🦫

This , organize your own river clean up! 🌊 Find below our one-stop-shop handbook on how to organize a successful event from tips on how to select a cleanup site to engaging your volunteers:

Organize Your Own River Cleanup If this is the first time you are hosting a river cleanup, download this one-stop-shop handbook on how to organize a successful event. It has everything you need—from tips on how to select a cleanup site to engaging your volunteers to securing attention from local media. Even if you have been host...

Rivers make life possible. Wild and Scenic Rivers are our healthiest, cleanest, most intact waterways – protected for their beauty, natural and cultural significance, and recreational value.

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Wild and Scenic Rivers Rivers make life possible. Wild and Scenic Rivers are our healthiest, cleanest, most intact waterways — protected for their beauty, natural and cultural significance, and recreational value. They provide clean drinking water, support a rich web of life, and are the lifeblood of our cultures and co...

The Roadless Rule is a landmark national policy adopted by the U.S. Forest Service in 2001 to maintain approx. 58.5 million acres of largely healthy, undeveloped National Forest lands.

The Dept. of Agriculture recently announced it's seeking to roll back the , which would be the single largest rollback of protections for rivers in U.S. history – putting clean water and freshwater habitat at serious risk.

🌲 before Oct. 6: https://act.americanrivers.org/page/101689/action/1?ea.tracking.id=facebook

The Endangered Species Act long protected species by preventing “harm” to their habitat. But the administration recently changed the definition of “harm” to exclude protected species' "habitat", leaving these places vulnerable to destruction.

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The Endangered Species Act No Longer Includes Protection of Habitat For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has protected species from going extinct and disappearing from our planet forever. Animals and plants alike have benefited from these protections, and many are thriving today. Disappointingly, in the last month, the administration changed the defini...