The Colorado River – A 2025 Recap

For many Idahoans, the Teton River is forever linked to one fateful day: June 5, 1976.

That morning, the Teton Dam catastrophically failed during its initial filling, unleashing a wall of water that devastated downstream communities an...

In a small village in the Catskill Mountains, the century-old Lake Jefferson Dam still stands, crumbling.

This seemingly innocuous dam has the potential to cause a fatal flood if it fails. Its spillway, completed in 1926, is no longer large enough to safely pass the floods the region is facing as storms grow more intense. It has already been damage...

In California’s Central Valley, a river can look alive and still be starving. The San Joaquin winds through farmland and former floodplain country, but for much of the last century, it has been cut off from the seasonal flooding that is the lifeforce of juvenile fish. That is why inland salmon and steelhead — ocean-going rainbow trout — recovery conversations keep circling ba...

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...