Should farmers or city pay to clean the water? Iowa may decide
Thirsty cities begin to eye water from the Great Lakes
From Lands End to Golden Gate: Discovering African American History on San Francisco’s Coast!
This account of a recent Outdoor Afro hike in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area describes how the histories of African Americans and their experiences in nature are part of the learning that takes place during Outdoor Afro’s adventures. Often these histories are left out of “official” interpretive materials.
Hundreds Participate in Flint’s Intertribal Water Ceremony
Introduction to Issue Two
We commonly think of rivers as, for the most part, staying where they belong, in the river bed, occasionally coming out into the floodplain under fairly predictable conditions conducive to high water that we call “floods.” The writing in this issue of Open Rivers belies this notion of predictability, to a large degree.
Princeville and the Environmental Landscape of Race
Future River—The Mississippi in Light of a Lifetime Immersion in Water
I love water. Always have, always will. I delight in skimming across it in my kayak and dropping down into it with mask, fins, and snorkel. I was born in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, and credit my early years amidst the lakes and streams of west-central Minnesota with imbuing me with a fascination of water that has endured my whole life.
Disturbing the Mississippi: The Language of Science, Engineering, and River Restoration
Around the world, from the U.K. to India, governments and NGOs are formulating plans and raising funds to restore river and floodplain habitat. Much of this restoration work is undertaken in the interest of minimizing or rolling back the effects of disturbances, such as hurricanes, erosion, and urban development, and shoring up resilience, a river’s natural ability to resist disturbances. However, the words used to explain river systems have come to explain what threatens them, and to explain what river restoration must therefore accomplish. Words shape deeds.
