To celebrate its first five years of work, Open Rivers Fund—a program of Resources Legacy Fund, launched in November 2016 with a 10-year, $50-million investment from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation—worked with film director Jason Jaacks to produce a documentary highlighting several dynamic dam removal projects and partnerships that are reshaping waterways across the American […]
Tag: Communities
Supporting Community and Citizen Science at the Elwha ScienceScape Symposium
Citizen Scientists Help Document Recovery of Rattlesnake Creek
Return the Salmon Relay event takes place in Eklutna
Removal of concrete Nelson Dam set to begin Monday
Chris In The Creek: An Ethnographic Approach To Community Based Monitoring
Western Montana’s Rattlesnake Creek and its many relations – human and more-than-human – are at the heart of our ongoing research-practice partnership between Watershed Education Network (WEN) and the UC Davis Center for Community and Citizen Science. As part of this partnership, I was fortunate enough to visit Missoula this past summer to collect data […]
‘Deadbeat dams’ and their impact on cold-water ecosystems
Another Washington dam removal — and 37 more miles of salmon habitat restored
Craig betting on Yampa River to help transition from coal economy
Restoring waters & building momentum: 4 years of the Open Rivers Fund
A free-flowing river has an aura of inevitability. As creeks and small streams merge into one, the river finds its way. Left to its own devices, it goes where gravity says it must – scouring its own banks, starting course changes when obstructed, and moving material to rebuild its bed. On its way, gaining volume […]