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  • Darby McAdams holds many places in the river world: kayaker, film maker & instructor of both kayaking and film work for young paddlers. In November of 2024 her new film NEAR THE RIVER went public. In this episode Darby moves through her kayak path, her film path and talks about NEAR THE RIVER and its story about the people of the Zambezi River in Africa.

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    River Roots Film Production
    NRS Dirtbag Diaries: “Darby McAdams & the Evolution of Passion” by Chandra Brown


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  • Georgia has rivers and streams running from the mountain country of the Southern Appalachians to the Gulf of Mexico, totaling about 70,000 total miles of waterways. Whitewater and flatwater. Clear water and Black water. And a long history of publicly accessible rivers and streams. That access is being debated by the State of Georgia and bills have been proposed that would curtail access for the public. We talk with Georgia Rivers to learn more about this topic and about the public meeting and comment process.

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    Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 9 a.m. in Newnan Donald W. Nixon Centre for Performing and Visual Arts in Newnan, GA.

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    Flint River, Georgia, Fall 2024

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  • 25 years ago the Edwards Dam was removed from the Kennebec River in Maine allowing alewives and sturgeon to return to their spawning grounds in force, revitalizing the ecosystem and delighting the paddlers and local communities with the sturgeons’ explosive breaching displays. In the summer of 2024, 2 separate source to sea trips ran the lengths of the Sandy and Kennebec in Maine. Contributing host Clark Tate was part of the Sandy trip and tells the on river story of both source to sea trips.


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    RIVERS FOR CHANGE
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    2024 Sandy to Kennebec Confluence



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    River Radius Podcast - Source to Sea on the Saco River

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    SANDY RIVER INFORMATION

    Sandy River Northern Forest Canoe Trail Map

    Environmental Geology Along the Sandy River, Farmington Maine, Field Trip from University of Maine at Farmington. Dr. Tom Eastler, Mr. Andy Buckland, Mr. Joel Sproul

    Indigenous Land and Water Acknowledgement by the University of Maine at Farmington

    The Rangeley Area: A Geologic Tour by Emma Stattelman and Katarina Dickson

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    Finding the Next Sebasticook - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

    Map of Atlantic SalmonHabitat - Maine Department of Marine Resources

    Kennebec River Management Plan Diadromous Resources Amendment - Maine Department of Marine Resources

    Historical Fish Trap Counts - Maine Department of Marine Resources

    KENNEBEC DAM RELICENSING INFORMATION

    Draft Environmental Impact Statement

    The written comments are posted on the FERC elibrary website under docket P-2322.

    World weighs in on fate of 4 Maine dams blocking passage of endangered salmon - Bangor Daily News by Lori Valigra

    Conservation groups cheer decision preserving state authority in Kennebec River dam relicensing - Maine Public by Robbie Feinberg

    DEP says Sandy River dredging violated Maine laws - Maine Public by Murray Carpenter

    4 dams, the future of Kennebec fish runs and salmon’s survival at stake in federal licensing battle - Press Herald, Colin Woodard

    State agencies are reporting more salmon returning to the Kennebec and Penobscot Rivers this Year (2023) - Maine Public by Robbie Feinberg

    We Can Turn a River in Maine into a Paradise for Salmon - The New York Times by John Waldman

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  • 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.


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    Natasha Cowie, Hydrologist, River Forecast Centre

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    "Water begins moving past landslide damming Chilcotin River"

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  • 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.


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    Beppe Amodio
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  • 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.

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    GRAND CANYON RIVER DISTRACT

    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
    High Country News: Grand Canyon abolishes river district in response to sexual harassment allegations

    Outside Magazine: Hostile Environment
    Outside Magazine: The Woman Ending Sexual Harassment at the Grand Canyon

    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
    Climber Convicted on all Three Counts of Sexual Assualt

    Safe Outside / American Alpine Club

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  • 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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  • Dams have been blocking rivers for decades. Is there a growing crack in the dam? This episode explores dam removal as an increasing trend. We talk with guests at the Chattooga River and Tugalo Dam, the Snake River and the Lower Snake River Dams, and the Klamath River and the active removal project there. And we look at the trends globally for dam construction and removal.

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    PREVIOUS EPISODES ON SAME TOPICS

    Klamath 1: The Origins of Paddle Tribal Waters
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    Salmon 1: Mountain Origins
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    Salmon 3: Fighting Salmon Extinction Real Time

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    Copco 2 Dam deconstruction on Klamath River, June 2023
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  • Each year American Rivers publishes a list of 10 rivers that hold great opportunity for river quality improvements. This year, in addition to covering the full list with Amy Kober of American Rivers, we talk with local experts to include the ocean surfers at the Tijuana River estuary in California, the river lovers at the Duck River in Tennessee, and the high desert river people overseeing the entire state of New Mexico. We hear about the unique rivers and the work happening to care for these places.

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  • Kevin Fedarko’s book, the Emerald Mile, takes readers on the journey of the fastest ride through the Grand Canyon in a dory named the Emerald Mile. Fedarko’s book dives into the backstory of the dam, the characters, and even the record-breaking journey, and yet leaves one question remaining: what is the backstory of the dory’s namesake? In this 1st of 2 Emerald Mile episodes, the stories of Fedarko and Dave Van De Mark demonstrate the impact that words and imagery make when applied to places like the Emerald Mile in California’s Redwood National and State Parks.

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    When & How The Emerald Mile Came To Be A Critical Part of the Original Redwood National Park

    Local Photography Legend Who Helped Establish Redwood National and State Parks Sets Out to Complete His Life’s Work

    Activist and photographer DaveVandeMark treks to the upper reaches of Redwood Creek to document how its conservation has impacted its ecological condition

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  • 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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    Marty Ralph
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    University of California San Diego

    AR short video (great graphic diagram)

    Thumbnail pic credit: Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes

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  • 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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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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    A note from Prof. Nico Zegre about the research work:
    “sincerest gratitude to whitewater boater and recent graduate student of the MHL, Melissa “Mel” Shafer, who conducted the future boatable days analysis for the lower 48 states”

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  • 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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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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