The Colorado River – A 2025 Recap

Most students at the University of California, Santa Barbara pass this place every day without fully realizing how special it is.

Just beyond campus sits Coal Oil Point Reserve and Devereux Slough, a tidal wetland shaped by shifting water and a surprising abundance of life. What might look like an open stretch of land from a distance is actually a dynamic, water-co...

Tillie Walton is a conservationist, hydrologist, river guide, and the host of the PBS series, Wild Rivers with Tillie. She is also a dear friend of American Rivers.

In season 1 of Wild Rivers w...

Voters throughout the West continue to care deeply about the protection of clean water and public lands as well as the wildlife habitats they contain.  The values protected by Wild and Scenic Rivers are the same values that Western voters consistently say they care about. Across roughly 15 years of polling in the West, including Colorado College’s Conservation in th...

The Myakka River is woven into everyday life in Sarasota County, Florida, with sunny mornings on the water, fishing, and paddling along the gentle waters with the occasional manatee sighting, if you’re lucky. Like all rivers, its value lies in many things at once. It is a habitat. It is a livelihood. It is cl...

Outside the halls of Congress, few are familiar with the legislative tool called the Congressional Review Act. Seemingly innocuous, even boring in its name, the Congressional Review Act – or CRA – is a powerful, consequential political device, and it’s increasingly being used to undermine protections for our public lands and waters.

The Congressional Review Act was ...