Exploration

Of Mind or of Matter? - Bull Lake Creek, Wyoming

Whitewater kayaker Owen Doyle reflects on a one-day descent of Bull Lake Creek. What begins as a technical challenge becomes a “spirit quest,” pushing him beyond physical limits into a deeper relationship with the river—where focus, fear, and flow converge.

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Keep the Fire Alive

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Let the Water Do the Work: Rafting Explorer Peter Fox Reflects on a Life in the Current

In this exclusive interview, Peter Fox, author of the freshly released nonfiction memoir and ode to rivers, Let the Water Do the Work — sits down with RIVERS Creative Director Willie Henkel. A Conversation with Peter Fox On a clear winter afternoon, I called Peter Fox to talk about rivers, exploration,

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Logging in the Nooksack Basin -will it increase flooding and destruction of salmon habitat?

Recent observations in streamflow data show an increased frequency of flash flooding in the Middle Fork Nooksack Drainage.

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RIVER VALUES

The river is our connection to life, death and rebirth in the world's current incarnation.

Exploration

!Ay Chihuahua!

Ben Stookesberry's latest film "Ay Chihuahua!"follows "Stookes" and fellow expedition legend Eric Boomer in the heart of the Barrancas del Cobre, one of the most remote areas in Northern Mexico. Ben has cemented himself as the ultimate expedition kayaker of the past two

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Río Napo Dossier

The Río Napo The Río Napo is one of the principal tributaries of the Amazon River, originating in the Ecuadorian Andes and flowing eastward into Peru. It is home to Kichwa communities and supports fisheries, transportation networks, and forest-based livelihoods. This river forms the geographic and cultural foundation for the

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Tainted Gold: Resistance and Futures in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Tainted Gold, is a community film screening and conversation centered on environmental justice struggles and river-based ways of life in Ecuador’s Napo River Basin.

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Reviews

Is a River Alive? — Part III: The Living River

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One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest - Book Review

Book Review: One River by Wade Davis Wade Davis is one of the most prolific public anthropologists of our time—a writer, scholar, and explorer whose work bridges ethnography, botany, and activism. In One River, originally published over two decades ago, Davis crafts a narrative that is equal parts travelogue,

Exploration

Taming the Lion: Revisiting a Legendary Indus River Expedition

Check out this wild documentary, Taming the Lion, which follows a groundbreaking 1990 expedition through the Rondu Gorge of Pakistan’s Indus River. Where a team of paddlers pushed into one of the world’s largest rapids that few had ever imagined navigating. The Rondu Gorge isn’t just another

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Deschutes, Interrupted: Where the Water Waits

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Algo debe Cambiar - Rio Pusuno

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Ghosts, Monsters and Angels

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July in the RIVERS world

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The Historic Klamath River Accord

Requa, California, USA – The Klamath River Accord was signed on Sunday July 13th by Indigenous youth, Tribal leaders and allied organizations from multiple river basins around the world - including Chile, Bolivia, New Zealand, China, and the United States - as a call to action for dam removals and a

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Help Permanently Protect "Upper Rutzats Forest" on the Nooksack River!

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Siekopai Tribe's Land Back on the Rio Aguarico

Rio Aguarico, Sucumbíos Ecuador – Amazon Basin In late November of 2023, the Siekopai Nation won a historic lawsuit in the provincial court of Sucumbíos, Ecuador to deliver land back and title for 104,000 acres of biodiverse rainforest in their territorial homeland Pëekë'ya (Lagartococha). The lawsuit was founded

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Is a River Alive? The River of Cedars - Book Review

Reflections from Chapter 1: “The River of Cedars” by Robert Macfarlane “Everywhere I traveled, I asked people the same question: What is the river saying? This is an old growth question; it has been around a long time. The answers I received were beautiful, cryptic, troubling, and illuminating.” — Robert Macfarlane,

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More Then Human Rights -MOTH Collective

What Is the MOTH Collective? And What Does “More Than Human Rights” Have to Do with RIVERS? Here at RIVERS, we’ve been working our way chapter by chapter through Is a River Alive?, the latest book by Cambridge author Robert Macfarlane. (Check out the thread here to tap in!

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Is A River Alive? Introduction -Book Review Series

Okay, okay, okay — We’re Dropping Into Our First Book Review Series at RIVERS and believe it or not, this one actually required some reading. Last week, my grandma (aka Grammie) sent me a book. Over the last few years, she’s seen me get deeper and deeper into rivers—

Mississippi River Playlist - by David Bryne

Sure enough—like an answer from the river universe—a playlist showed up, from former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne.

Exploration

Welcome to Khusal - Indus

There are ancient echoes through a fraught valley...

Exploration

Rivers Pulse

RIVERS co-founder Wil Henkel takes a personal dive into his relation to rivers. When I think about rivers, I think about their pulse. The undulating power and grace of which they move, in poetic dances and in raw force. I almost drowned on the Middle fork of Nooksack river in

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3 Most informative videos on the future of Washington States forests

a RIVERS curation Here at RIVERS, we focus—predominantly—on rivers. I know you might be thinking, well, obviously... But as so many of us river lovers understand, a river is far more than just the water that flows from source to mouth. Rivers are the veins of the watershed.