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Designed to demystify wild and scenic rivers for managers and planners, and stakeholders, the Interagency Wild and Scenic Rivers Coordinating Council, in collaboration with the River Management...

The Jackie Diedrich Excellence in Leadership Award worked—and continues to work—to improve management of the National Wild & Scenic Rivers System. The award recognizes a key individual in any...

In 2024, the National Park Service (NPS) completed a federal lands update of the Nationwide Rivers Inventory (NRI) using readily available planning information from regional NPS staff and the...

Congratulations to Jamie Fosburgh with the National Park Service on being the 2025 Jackie Diedrich Excellence in Leadership Award recipient.

On December 9th, Jamie Fosburgh,...

On October 2nd, the anniversary of the National Trails System Act and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the National Park Foundation announced over $1 million in grants to national rivers and trails...

River Network and the USDA Forest Service have joined forces for the sixth consecutive year to support the stewardship of wild and scenic rivers across the United States. This partnership provides...

“Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. . . . We are a nation rich in rivers.”

So said Charles Kuralt in 1995 . . . and he understated their inextricable ties...

Got summer travel plans? Winter river trips are special, but let’s face it, you’re tired of winter and ready for the summer season—fishing, swimming, plowing through Class IV whitewater, tubing,...

Water quality. Without high-quality water, many of the “outstandingly remarkable values” for which rivers are protected in the National Wild & Scenic Rivers System wouldn’t exist. In fact, for...

Protection of wild and scenic rivers is, by design, intended to be a collaborative effort between the federal government and other governments, Native American tribes, nonprofit organizations, and...

One of the first rivers added to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System (October 23, 1975), part of Little Beaver Creek is now Ohio’s 147th – and newest – nature preserve. 

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This summer, a number of Partnership Wild and Scenic Rivers participated in the Dragonfly Mercury Project, collecting samples of dragonfly larvae to be tested for mercury by the U.S. Geological...

The U.S. Forest Service and River Network have announced the 2023 Stewardship Partner award winners...

On June 1, the York River Study Committee, National Park Service Deputy Director Mike Reynolds, Associate Director for Partnerships and Civic Engagement Lauren Imgrund, Congresswoman Chellie...