Limit agribusiness - for salmon's sake Jul 5, 2009
This small canning operation was the beginning of an industry that would spread to all the great rivers of the West, leaving a legacy of jobs and wealth based on the natural cycle of the salmon's return. This is a heritage we are in danger of losing forever. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Whitewater kayaker Holbek dies (30) Mar 20, 2009
As part of an itinerant clan of hairball paddlers who irreverently called themselves, "The Hipsters on the Move," Holbek, Chuck Stanley, Richard Montgomery and a revolving cast of several other boaters launched an extraordinary assault on the un-run rivers of the West. One of their most audacious and dangerous first descents was on the Bald Rock Canyon run of the Middle Fork Feather River, where the gradient reaches 400 feet-per-mile and the obstacles include a boulder-choked, 30-foot drop they... (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Two rivers in one Feb 8, 2009
But over time, legal battles and changes to state law have enshrined the dam as a dividing dry patch in one of the working rivers of the West. An agricultural river. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
